Interstitial pneumonitis in canine visceral leishmaniasis

Forty-one naturally infected dogs with visceral leishmaniasis from an urban area of Corumbá (Mato Grosso do Sul-BRAZIL) were studied and three types of lung involvement due to visceral leishmaniasis were characterized; a cellular, a cellular-fibrotic and a fibrotic type. These types seem to represen...

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Published in:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Main Authors: M. I. S. Duarte, M. D. Laurenti, V. L. Brandão Nunes, A. F. Rego Jr., E. T. Oshiro, C. E. P. Corbett
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1986
Subjects:
Visceral leishmaniasis
Interstitital pneumonitis
Canine pathology
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Infectious and parasitic diseases
RC109-216
Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651986000600009
https://doaj.org/article/b27f3ffe08314f4a9731f8e3048684be
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Summary:Forty-one naturally infected dogs with visceral leishmaniasis from an urban area of Corumbá (Mato Grosso do Sul-BRAZIL) were studied and three types of lung involvement due to visceral leishmaniasis were characterized; a cellular, a cellular-fibrotic and a fibrotic type. These types seem to represent a sequential evolutive proce'as. Visceral leishmaniasis frequently causes an interstitial pneu monitis in naturally infected dogs (80.5%) as well as in man and experimentally infected hamsters.

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