Canine Leishmaniasis
Application of qPCR in conjunctival swab samples for the evaluation of canine leishmaniasis in borderline cases or disease relapse and correlation with clinical parameters
... zoonotic leishmaniasis, which is endemic in the Mediterranean Basin, Central America, South America and parts of Asia ...the canine leishmaniasis (CanL) is acknowledged as a very important problem in ...
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Application of an Improved Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay Method for Serological Diagnosis of Canine Leishmaniasis
... of canine leishmaniasis (CanL) is essential toward a more efficient control of this zoonosis, but it remains problematic due to the high incidence of asymptomatic ...Portuguese canine population and ...
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The Serological Diagnosis of Canine Leishmaniasis: Commercial ELISA or in House IFAT?
... disease. Canine leishmaniasis is diagnosed directly through the presence of the parasite by direct micro- scopic examination of lymph nodes, bone marrow aspirates and/or culture of skin lesions, or ...
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Canine leishmaniasis in Southern Italy: a role for nitric oxide released from activated macrophages in asymptomatic infection?
... and canine leishmaniasis (CanL) from Leishmania infantum zymodeme MON-1 is endemic in Central and Southern regions of Italy as well as the islands ...
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First report of autochthonous non vectorial canine leishmaniasis in New Caledonia, south western Pacific: implications for new control measures and recommendations on importation of dogs
... of canine leishmaniasis transmission in New Caledonia and raises the debate of relevant test requirements and diagnostic sensitivity prior to importation of dogs in Leishmania-free ...New ...
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A canine leishmaniasis pilot survey in an emerging focus of visceral leishmaniasis: Posadas (Misiones, Argentina)
... Methods: One hundred and ten dogs from the city of Posadas were included in the study. They were selected based on convenience and availability. All dogs underwent clinical examination. Symptomatology related to ...
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Canine leishmaniasis: the key points for qPCR result interpretation
... http://www.eurolupa.org/ is a European initiative to study common complex human diseases using the dog as animal model. The UAB leads the subworkpackage focusing on canine leishmaniasis. All samples had ...
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Environmental risk mapping of canine leishmaniasis in France
... Background: Canine leishmaniasis (CanL) is a zoonotic disease caused by Leishmania infantum, a Trypanosomatid protozoan transmitted by phlebotomine ...sandflies. Leishmaniasis is endemic in southern ...
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The quest for canine leishmaniasis in Romania: the presence of an autochthonous focus with subclinical infections in an area where disease occurred
... human leishmaniasis involving 23 children and one adult in 1954 [18], two studies were carried out in the human focus area in order to identify animal res- ...
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The recombinant protein rSP03B is a valid antigen for screening dog exposure to Phlebotomus perniciosusacross foci of canine leishmaniasis
... Western blot analysis was used to confirm the similarity of antigenic epitopes between the native yellow-related protein found in P. perniciosus SGH and the corresponding recombi- nant protein rSP03B. Sodium dodecyl ...
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Genetic Control of Canine Leishmaniasis: Genome-Wide Association Study and Genomic Selection Analysis
... performed a Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel stratified analysis within the clusters as a measure of correction. However, no value of the inflation factor after the correction was presented. Only Olsson and collegues reported an ...
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The epidemiology of canine leishmaniasis: transmission rates estimated from a cohort study in Amazonian Brazil
... Longitudinal data also allow for a more accurate assessment of the rate at which hosts lose detectable antibody. Our estimate of the per capita reversion rate was very low, only 0 ± 0002}day, whereas Courtenay et al. ...
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Vaccine trials against canine leishmaniasis
... seeded canine blood have been reported using primers targeting kDNA sequences, though as previously discussed, theoretical analytical sensitivity does not always reflect diagnostic performance in clinical samples ...
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Multicomponent Chimeric Antigen for Serodiagnosis of Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis
... In the last few years, an increasing number of Leishmania antigens have been characterized. Some of them can be con- sidered Leishmania-specific proteins, such as the surface pro- tease gp63 (25), the surface ...
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Comparison of Six PCR Methods Using Peripheral Blood for Detection of Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis
... Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) caused by Leishmania infantum ...of canine leishmaniasis in areas of endemicity in the Mediterranean basin ranges be- tween 10 and 30% (12, 15, 40, ...of canine VL ...
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Application of a direct agglutination test for detection of specific anti Leishmania antibodies in the canine reservoir
... Sensitivity was 100% and specificity was 98.9% when the test was used on serum samples from 220 dogs, including 26 with parasitologically confirmed canine leishmaniasis, 12 with suspecte[r] ...
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Evaluation of rK39 rapid diagnostic tests for canine visceral leishmaniasis : longitudinal study and meta analysis
... [8], and this combination allows the detection of most infected dogs. However, these tests have important drawbacks for operational control programmes in resource-poor countries: testing requires technical skills and ...
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Evaluation of rK39 rapid diagnostic tests for canine visceral leishmaniasis: longitudinal study and meta-analysis.
... In a veterinary clinical setting, the high specificity of rK39 RDTs indicates that they are a useful rapid test for diagnosis of clinically symptomatic cases of canine leishmaniasis, which currently is a ...
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Epidemiology of canine gastrointestinal helminths in sub Saharan Africa
... of canine diseases is important for planning and implementing control ...characterise canine helminthiasis in sub-Saharan Africa using a systematic ...
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Haemorrhagic pneumonia in sled dogs caused by Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus - one fatality and two full recoveries: a case report
... Environmental stress associated with intense exercise, competition and prolonged transportation combined with canine vaccination may suppress the innate immune re- sponse to viral infections and subsequent S. equi ...
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