Comparação entre os métodos de ELISA - Antígeno total e ELISA - Ligante de Fucose e Manose em cães sintomáticos e oligossintomáticos para leishmaniose visceral

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Distribuição espacial da leishmaniose visceral canina e humana no município de Birigui-SP

Pós-graduação em Medicina Veterinária - FMVZ

Utilização de marcadores moleculares no estudo populacional de Leishmania infantum chagasi no Brasil

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Caracterização genotípica de amostras de Leishmania spp. isoladas de área endêmica para Leishmaniose Visceral Canina no estado de São Paulo

Pós-graduação em Doenças Tropicais - FMB

Leishmaniose visceral: situação atual e controle

In Brazil, the importance of leishmaniosis it is seen in its high incidence and huge distribution, as well as the possibility of became a lethal disease. It´s a zoonosis of canids, felines, rodents e marsupials, that is transmitted to men through vector bugs. Visceral leishmaniosis, the most serious and prevalent form, strongly became as an emergent and endemic disease, seeing in many Brazilian states, also bringing a lot of problems to public health. Because of this, it´s notable that the increase of urbanization in the last 20 years put in quest all the control strategies existent, the measures implanted until today were incapable to eliminate the transmission as to impede the occurrence of new epidemics. The prevention of dogs through imunoprophylaxis appear as an alternative, however to have a safe use it´s needed other studies, that can bring real results. The research below shows the increase of visceral leishmaniosis during the years, associated mainly to human cases, besides of dismember the tries used or that will be used with objective of dicrease the spread of leishmaniosis