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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 50(2), 1994, pp. 158-164
Copyright © 1994 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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The Identity of Leishmania Isolated from Sand Flies and Vertebrate Hosts in a Major Focus of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Baturite, Northeastern Brazil

I. A. B. Vasconcelos, A. W. Vasconcelos, N. M. Fe Filho, R. G. Queiroz, E. W. Santana, M. Bozza, S. M. Sallenave, C. Valim, J. R. David AND U. G. Lopes
Nucleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil; Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Escola Nacional de Saude Publica, Fundacao Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Ilha do Fundao, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

During a field investigation carried out in Baturite, Brazil from 1989 to 1991, sand flies, sympatric rodents, domestic dogs and humans were surveyed for leishmaniasis. Twenty strains of Leishmania were isolated by in vitro culture from Lutzomyia whitmani, three strains were obtained from Rattus rattus, two strains from dogs, and five strains from humans. The isolates were characterized by isoenzyme electrophoresis by hybridization with kinetoplast DNA-specific probes. All the samples were identified as L. (Viannia) braziliensis. The importance of these results in the dynamics of the Leishmania infection in this focus is discussed.




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