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THE FIRST RECORD OF AMERICAN VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS IN DOMESTIC CATS FROM RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
Silva, Alba Valéria Machado da et al. | Date Issued: 2008
Author
Silva, Alba Valéria Machado da
Cândido, Claudia Dias de Souza
Pereira, Daniela de Pita
Brazil, Reginaldo Peçanha
Carreira, João Carlos Araujo
Affilliation
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Toxoplasmose. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Toxoplasmose. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Bioquímica Molecular de Doenças Endêmicas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Bioquímica e Fisiologia de Insetos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Toxoplasmose. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Abstract
This paper is the first to report visceral leishmaniasis in domestic cats (Felis catus domesticus) from an endemic area in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. A relatively high seroprevalence of 25% was observed although none of them have presented any symptom. Our results support the observation of previous authors, suggesting that cats may be considered as alternative domestic hosts of visceral leishmaniasis and should be included in serological investigations performed in endemic areas.
Keywords
American visceral leishmaniasis
Indirect fluorescence assay
Cats
PCR
Rio de Janeiro
 
Publisher
Elsevier
Citation
SILVA, Alba Valéria Machado da et al. The first record of American visceral leishmaniais in domestic cats from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Acta Tropica, v. 105, n. 1, p. 92-94, Jan. 2008.
DOI
10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.09.001
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0001-706X