Leishmania (L.) chagasi
Topical Resiquimod Protects against Visceral Infection with Leishmania infantum chagasi in Mice
... with Leishmania infantum ...with L. infantum chagasi, and parasite burdens were ...infantum chagasi. This protection against L. infantum chagasi infection persisted as long as 8 ...
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T and B lymphocytes in the brains of dogs with concomitant seropositivity to three pathogenic protozoans: Leishmania chagasi, Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum
... with Leishmania chagasi, dogs may be infected by opportunistic pathogens, such as Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum, which may contribute to the occurrence of lesions in the central nervous ...to ...
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Unusual Clinical Manifestations of Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi in an HIV-coinfected Patient and the Relevance of ITS1-PCR-RFLP: A Case Report
... with Leishmania/HIV can develop atypical forms of visceral leishmania- sis (VL), making it indispensable to identify the etiological ...electrophoresis. Leishmania genus and Leishmania ...
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Detection of Anti-Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi Immunoglobulin G by Flow Cytometry for Cure Assessment following Chemotherapeutic Treatment of American Visceral Leishmaniasis
... fixed L. chagasi promasti- ...anti-L. chagasi IgG reactivity of paired samples ( ⌬ PPFP) detected by FC-ALPA-IgG and FC-AFPA-IgG, defined as the variation between IgG reactivity after and ...
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Revealing the kinetics of Leishmania chagasi infection in the male genital system of hamsters
... Background: Leishmaniasis causes alterations and lesions in the genital system, which leads to azoospermia and testicular atrophy in animals during the chronic phase of the infection. The aim of this study was to reveal ...
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Investigations of complement resistance factors in Leishmania chagasi
... of Leishmania species including Leishmania chagasi can be cultured in vitro axenically (in the absence of the fly ...of L. chagasi genomic DNA, and then selected with human serum, ≈12 ...
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Identification of the most abundant secreted proteins from the salivary glands of the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis, vector of Leishmania chagasi
... Le. chagasi, the causal agent of visceral ...Le. chagasi. DTH to Leishmania is a marker for protection against this parasite, while positive serology is a sign of poor ...Le. chagasi, did not ...
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In vitro cytocidal effects of the essential oil from Croton cajucara (red sacaca) and its major constituent 7 hydroxycalamenene against Leishmania chagasi
... 3). L. chagasi promastigote lysates presented a similar 54 kDa protein band, but no significant difference in peptidase ac- tivity was noted between treated and untreated ...on L. chagasi ...
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Resistance to visceral leishmaniasis is severely compromised in mice deficient of bradykinin B2 receptors
... Findings: B2R − / − C57BL/6 knock-out (KOB2) and B2R +/+ C57BL/6-wild type control mice (C57) were infected with amastigotes of Leishmania (L.) chagasi. Thirty days after infection, the KOB2 mice ...
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Tissue Cytokine Responses in Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis
... Leishmania infantum and L. chagasi, which cause human and canine visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Europe and Latin Amer- ica, are maintained largely in domestic dog populations. Canine VL is a major ...
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A canine model of experimental infection with Leishmania (L ) mexicana
... with L. (L.) chagasi/infantum in which case anti- body levels took more than a year to increase ...of Leishmania parasite DNA in the healed lesion ...
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Hydrogen peroxide mediated toxicity for Leishmania donovani chagasi promastigotes Role of hydroxyl radical and protection by heat shock
... EPR spectra of heat shocked or control promastigotes 30 min after the addition of H202 to a solution of DMPO, DMSO, and DTPA containing log phase promastigotes incubated at 260C Log or 3[r] ...
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Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Recombinant K39 Antigen in Diagnosis and Prognosis of Indian Visceral Leishmaniasis
... in Leishmania chagasi that contains a repetitive 117-bp sequence encoding 39 amino acid residues (K39) con- served at the C-terminal end in all of the VL-causing isolates examined so far ...
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A sensitive flow cytometric methodology for studying the binding of L chagasito canine peritoneal macrophages
... macrophage-Leishmania chagasi interaction by a binding assay using the stable intra-cyto- plasmic fluorocrome, 5,6-carboxyfluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester (CFSE) ...
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Immunoblot analysis of the humoral immune response to Leishmania donovani infantum polypeptides in human visceral leishmaniasis
... Human visceral leishmaniasis: analysis of the specificity of the humoral immune response to polypeptides of Leishmania donovani chagasi.. infantum-infected patient sera; sera infected wi[r] ...
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Resistance of Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis and Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensisto nitric oxide correlates with disease severity in Tegumentary Leishmaniasis
... Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease caused by the Leishma- nia spp. protozoa, transmitted to the skin of a mammalian host during the bite of an infected female sand fly vector. Infections range in severity from ...
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An integrated pipeline for the development of novel panels of mapped microsatellite markers for Leishmania donovani complex, Leishmania braziliensis and Leishmania major.
... that any apparent linkage disequilibrium would be evidence for a clonal population structure. Primers were tested against a panel of control DNA: 7 L. donovani from Sudan and 4 L. infantum from Sudan, ...
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Polymorphism specific PCR enhances the diagnostic performance of American tegumentary leishmaniasis and allows the rapid identification of Leishmania species from Argentina
... Considering the presence of several dermatological diseases with similar clinical manifestations to ATL, the reduced applicability of serological diagnostic methods because of their cross reactivity with American ...
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The development of Leishmania turanica in sand flies and competition with L major
... marked L. turanica and L. major strains. Gen- etic exchange in Leishmania is a very rare event (reviewed by [14]) but has important epidemiological consequences; it can rapidly enhance the fitness of ...
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An integrated pipeline for the development of novel panels of mapped microsatellite markers for Leishmania donovani complex, Leishmania braziliensis and Leishmania major.
... Despite the absence of polymorphisms in L. do- novani when using L. major microsatellites, it has been reported that loci informative in L. braziliensis are also informative in other members of the ...
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