Autochthonous Outbreak and Expansion of Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis, Uruguay

We report an outbreak of canine visceral leishmaniasis in Uruguay. Blood specimens from 11/45 dogs tested positive for Leishmania spp. Specimens of Lutzomyia longipalpis sand flies were captured; typing revealed Leishmania infantum. Our findings document an expansion of visceral leishmaniasis to sou...

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Autores principales: Satragno, Dinora, Faral-Tello, Paula, Canneva, Bruno, Verger, Lorenzo, Lozano, Alejandra, Vitale, Edgardo, Greif, Gonzalo, Soto, Carlos, Robello, Carlos, Basmadjián, Yester
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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5382754/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28221113
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2303.160377
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author Satragno, Dinora
Faral-Tello, Paula
Canneva, Bruno
Verger, Lorenzo
Lozano, Alejandra
Vitale, Edgardo
Greif, Gonzalo
Soto, Carlos
Robello, Carlos
Basmadjián, Yester
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description We report an outbreak of canine visceral leishmaniasis in Uruguay. Blood specimens from 11/45 dogs tested positive for Leishmania spp. Specimens of Lutzomyia longipalpis sand flies were captured; typing revealed Leishmania infantum. Our findings document an expansion of visceral leishmaniasis to southern South America and risk for vectorborne transmission to humans.
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spelling pubmed-53827542017-04-06 Autochthonous Outbreak and Expansion of Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis, Uruguay Satragno, Dinora Faral-Tello, Paula Canneva, Bruno Verger, Lorenzo Lozano, Alejandra Vitale, Edgardo Greif, Gonzalo Soto, Carlos Robello, Carlos Basmadjián, Yester Emerg Infect Dis Research Letter We report an outbreak of canine visceral leishmaniasis in Uruguay. Blood specimens from 11/45 dogs tested positive for Leishmania spp. Specimens of Lutzomyia longipalpis sand flies were captured; typing revealed Leishmania infantum. Our findings document an expansion of visceral leishmaniasis to southern South America and risk for vectorborne transmission to humans. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5382754/ /pubmed/28221113 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2303.160377 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Satragno, Dinora
Faral-Tello, Paula
Canneva, Bruno
Verger, Lorenzo
Lozano, Alejandra
Vitale, Edgardo
Greif, Gonzalo
Soto, Carlos
Robello, Carlos
Basmadjián, Yester
Autochthonous Outbreak and Expansion of Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis, Uruguay
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title_full Autochthonous Outbreak and Expansion of Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis, Uruguay
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title_short Autochthonous Outbreak and Expansion of Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis, Uruguay
title_sort autochthonous outbreak and expansion of canine visceral leishmaniasis, uruguay
topic Research Letter
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5382754/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28221113
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2303.160377
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