Preliminary observations of the urbanization and domiciliation of the American cutaneous leishmaniasis in Rio Branco, Acre, Western Amazon

ABSTRACT Background: The American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is expanding in peri-urban environments. Methods: An entomological survey was conducted in the area of the occurrence of an autochthonous urban case of ACL. Sandflies and a parasitological slide of the human case were submitted for mole...

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Published in:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Main Authors: Andreia Fernandes Brilhante, Ricardo Andrade Zampieri, Eduardo Alcici de Souza, Ana Carolina Gomes Carneiro, Edmilson Pereira Barroso, Marcia Moreira de Ávila, Leonardo Augusto Kohara Melchior, Janis Lunier de Souza, Elizangela Soares de Oliveira, Maria Carmelinda Gonçalves Pinto, Lucile Maria Floeter-Winter, Eunice Aparecida Bianchi Galati
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2022
Subjects:
Health Surveillance
Leishmania
Psychodidae
Urban population
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Arctic
Rio Branco
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0359-2022
https://doaj.org/article/80c4db4fb4654667bf9aa2a529eaccbd
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Summary:ABSTRACT Background: The American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is expanding in peri-urban environments. Methods: An entomological survey was conducted in the area of the occurrence of an autochthonous urban case of ACL. Sandflies and a parasitological slide of the human case were submitted for molecular diagnosis. Results: Nyssomyia whitmani and Ny. antunesi were the most frequently collected species. Ny. whitmani and Bichromomyia flaviscutellata were positive for Leishmania guyanensis and L. lainsoni, respectively. The human case tested positive for L. lainsoni. Conclusions: Sandflies and Leishmania parasites present in urban forest may occur frequently in nearby domiciliary environments; thus, these areas must be monitored.

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