| Journal: | The journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000298916 |
| ISSN: | 1678-9199 |
| Authors: | Lucheis, S.B1 Silva, A.V. da2 Araujo-Junior, J.P3 Langoni, H4 Meira, D.A Marcondes-Machado, J |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho", Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Botucatu, Sao Paulo. Brasil 2Universidade Estadual do Parana, Umuarama, Parana. Brasil 3Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho", Instituto de Biociencias, Botucatu, Sao Paulo. Brasil 4Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho", Faculdade de Medicina Veterinaria e Zootecnia, Botucatu, Sao Paulo. Brasil |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Season: | Dic |
| Volumen: | 11 |
| Number: | 4 |
| Pages: | 492-509 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Aplicado, descriptivo |
| English abstract | Among domestic animals, dogs are considered to be the major reservoirs of trypanosomatids and, due to their proximity to man, the presence of these parasites in dogs is an alert to actions aiming at triatomine control. Fifty dogs (26 males and 24 females), aged from 2 months to 15 years, belonging to 30 chronic Chagas disease individuals from 15 different municipalities in the western region of São Paulo State, Brazil, were subjected to blood collection for the following tests: artificial xenodiagnosis, blood culture, and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). Forty-three (86%) out of 50 dogs were positive to at least one of the tests performed; 34 (68%) were positive to xenodiagnosis, 30 (60%) to blood culture, and 25 (50%) to PCR for T. cruzi and/or T. rangeli. Although triatomines were not detected during the intra and peridomiciliary inspections in the dog owners residences, the results obtained demonstrate that there is a transmission cycle whereby triatomine vector may be participating in the infection epidemiological chain |
| Disciplines: | Medicina, Medicina veterinaria y zootecnia |
| Keyword: | Parasitología, Zoonosis, Enfermedad de Chagas, Perros, Xenodiagnóstico, Hemocultivo, Reacción en cadena de la polimerasa (PCR), Trypanosoma cruzi, Trypanosoma rangeli |
| Keyword: | Medicine, Veterinary medicine and animal husbandry, Parasitology, Zoonoses, Chagas disease, Dogs, Xenodiagnosis, Blood culture, Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Trypanosoma cruzi, Trypanosoma rangeli |
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