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 Nucleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Escola Nacional de Saude Publica, Fundacao Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Brazil

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A. W. Vasconcelos Nucleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Escola Nacional de Saude Publica, Fundacao Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Brazil

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N. M. Fe Filho Nucleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Escola Nacional de Saude Publica, Fundacao Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Brazil

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R. G. Queiroz Nucleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Escola Nacional de Saude Publica, Fundacao Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Brazil

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E. W. Santana Nucleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Escola Nacional de Saude Publica, Fundacao Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Brazil

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M. Bozza Nucleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Escola Nacional de Saude Publica, Fundacao Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Brazil

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S. M. Sallenave Nucleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Escola Nacional de Saude Publica, Fundacao Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Brazil

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C. Valim Nucleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Escola Nacional de Saude Publica, Fundacao Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Brazil

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J. R. David Nucleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Escola Nacional de Saude Publica, Fundacao Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Brazil

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U. G. Lopes Nucleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Escola Nacional de Saude Publica, Fundacao Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Brazil

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1994.50.158
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Volume 50: Issue 2
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158–164
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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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Copyright © 1994 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1994
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Feb 1994
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0002-9637
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