Visceral leishmaniasis: a study on phlebotomine sand flies and canine infection in Montes Claros, State of Minas Gerais

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte¹  Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto¹  Barata, Ricardo Andrade¹  Fortes-Dias, Consuelo Latorre¹  Rocha, Marília Fonseca¹  Costa, Daniela Camargos¹  Fundação Ezequiel Dias, Belo Horizonte¹  Costa, Roberto Teodoro da¹  Paula, Edvá Vieira de¹  Monteiro, Érika Michalsky¹  Fundação Nacional de Saúde, Belo Horizonte¹  Machado-Coelho, George Luis Lins¹  Dias, Edelberto Santos¹  Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Belo Horizonte¹  Silva, João Carlos França da¹ 

关键词: Canine visceral leishmaniasis;    Lutzomyia longipalpis;    Leishmania;    Phlebotomine;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86822005000200004

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

【 摘 要 】

Visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil was initially associated with rural areas. However, due to several environmental modifications such as deforestation, urbanization and intense migratory processes, there has been an expansion of endemic areas, leading to urbanization of the disease, mainly in the central and northeastern regions of Brazil. In the municipality of Montes Claros, located in the north of the state of Minas Gerais, an epidemiological survey on VL was carried out. A canine serological inquiry was carried out in 2002 and an entomological survey, using luminous CDC traps, was performed from September 2002 to August 2003. Canine VL prevalence showed an average infection rate of approximately 5%. An estimated 16 species comprised the phlebotomine sand fly fauna, based on a total of 1043 specimens. The predominant species was Lutzomyia longipalpis with a rate of 74%, suggesting its participation in the transmission of VL in the municipality of Montes Claros.

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