ArticlePLoS neglected tropical diseases2019
Dispersion of Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum in central-southern Brazil: Evidence from an integrative approach.
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- A Contribution towards Sustainable Development in the Amazon Based on a Socioeconomic and Environmental Analysis of Visceral Leishmaniasis in the State of Pará, Brazil.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2024Article
- Is leishmaniasis the new emerging zoonosis in the world?Veterinary research communications · 2023Review
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- Genetic variability of Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum causing human visceral leishmaniasis in the Southeastern Brazil.Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo · 2023Article
- First identification of Lutzomyia longipalpis in an area of visceral leishmaniasis transmission in central Rio Grande do Sul State, southern Brazil.Parasitology research · 2022Article
- Visceral Leishmaniasis and Land Use and Cover in the Carajás Integration Region, Eastern Amazon, Brazil.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022Article
- Cases and distribution of visceral leishmaniasis in western São Paulo: A neglected disease in this region of Brazil.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Lutzomyia longipalpis, Gone with the Wind and Other Variables.Neotropical entomology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum is the zoonotic agent of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a disease with a global distribution. The transmission scenario of VL has been undergoing changes worldwide, with the biologic cycle invading urbanized areas and dispersing the parasites into other previously free areas. The epidemiological cycle in Brazil has dispersed from the Northeast to other regions of the country. In this study, an integrative approach, including genotyping Brazilian strains of L. (L.) infantum for 14 microsatellite markers and reviewing historical records of the disease, was used to assess dispersion routes throughout central-southern Brazil. Our results support three L. (L.) infantum dispersion routes: A) dispersion from Bolivia to the states of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and São Paulo via the Bolivia-Brazil gas pipeline from 1998 to 2005; B) VL dispersion from Paraguay to the Brazilian side of the triple border (Foz do Iguaçu and Santa Terezinha de Itaipu) during after 2012; and C) emergence of a new L. (L.) infantum cluster in western Santa Catarina State and its dispersion to southern Paraná State (municipality of Pato Branco), after 2013. Hypotheses regarding possible entries of Leishmania (L.) infantum into the area of the triple border are presented and discussed. Understanding how VL has dispersed is vital to the development of control measures for this disease and to avoid future dispersion events.
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