Leishmania in teken
Geplaatst: Vr 03 Apr 2015, 20:26
Door:
Filipe Dantas-Torres, Vincenzo Lorusso & Gabriella Testini & Milena de Paiva-Cavalcanti & Luciana A. Figueredo & Dorothee Stanneck & Norbert Mencke & Sinval P. Brandão-Filho & Leucio C. Alves & Domenico Otranto
Online gepubliceerd: 3 February 2010
http://scholar.google.nl/scholar_url?ur ... MQgAMoAjAA
Detection of Leishmania infantum in Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks from Brazil and Italy
Filipe Dantas-Torres, Vincenzo Lorusso & Gabriella Testini & Milena de Paiva-Cavalcanti & Luciana A. Figueredo & Dorothee Stanneck & Norbert Mencke & Sinval P. Brandão-Filho & Leucio C. Alves & Domenico Otranto
Online gepubliceerd: 3 February 2010
http://scholar.google.nl/scholar_url?ur ... MQgAMoAjAA
Detection of Leishmania infantum in Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks from Brazil and Italy
Abstract
Canine leishmaniosis is a widespread disease caused by Leishmania parasites, which are transmitted by phlebotomine sand flies.
However, in some areas where canine leishmaniosis is endemic, but the primary vectors have not been found, ticks have been suspected to play a
role in transmitting the infection. Herewith, we report the detection of Leishmania infantum kinetoplast minicircle DNA (kDNA) in ticks collected from naturally infected dogs living in rural areas of Southern Italy (site A) and Northeastern Brazil (site B). Between March and October 2007,
ticks were collected from 26 dogs positive to anti-Leishmania antibodies (one from site A and 25 from site B) and either placed directly into vials containing 70% ethanol or maintained alive for identification and subsequent dissection. All the 95 ticks collected were morphologically identified as Rhipicephalus sanguineus.