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Enf Infec Microbiol 2009; 29 (4)

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in mexican dogs

Velasco CO, Rivas SB, Munguía SA, Hobart O

Language: Spanish
References: 21
Page: 135-140
PDF size: 466.56 Kb.


ABSTRACT

In Mexico, there is only one published work about the search of Leishmaniasis in canines. In the present paper, we describe the detection of Leishmania-infected dogs from four different states.
METHODS. During our studies about human cutaneous leishmaniasis in Tabasco and Quintana Roo, four dogs that showed symptoms of being infected with Leishmania were sampled by skin smears and skin lesion aspiration. A dog imported from Spain that was suspect of having visceral leishmaniasis was also sampled by bone marrow and linphatic aspiration. We studied the prevalence of cutaneous leishmaniasis in an hiperendemic zone. In Oaxaca, sampling 187 dogs, all of them were suspects of having this disease.
RESULTS. Two of the three dogs that presented lesions found in Quintana Roo an one in Tabasco were positive for L. m. mexicana. From the imported dogs, L. infantum could be isolate. Leishmania sp.. was detected in four dogs of Oaxaca and one of these strains resulted L. m. mexicana.
CONCLUSION. For the first time in Mexico, the detection of L. m. mexicana infections in dogs is described. L. m. mexicana could be isolated from three dogs. We also report the detection and isolation of L. infantum in an imported dog. Only the dog from Tabasco was tested for skin smear and it resulted positive.


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