Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects. Human and canine Leismaniasis in the northern Argentina

MARCO, JORGE DIEGO; BARROSO, PAOLA ANDREA; CALVOPIÑA, MANUEL; KUMAZAWA, HIDEO; FURUYA, MASATO; KORENAGA, MASATAKA; CAJAL, SILVANA PAMELA; RUEDA, PEDRO; MORA, MARÍA CELIA; REA, MARÍA; BORDA, CARLOS EDGARDO; BASOMBRÍO, MIGUEL ANGEL; TARANTO, NÉSTOR JUAN; HASHIGUCHI, YOSHIHISA

Studies on New and Old World Leishmaniasis and their transmission, with particular reference to Ecuador, Argentina and Pakistan

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Lugar: Kochi, Japan; Año: 2004; p. 98 - 109

A total of 16 Leishmania isolates (stocks), 15 from American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) patients and one from a dog with skin lesion, were investigated by performing isoenzymatic analysis. All the materials were from Salta and Corrientes provinces situated at the northwest and the northeast of the country respectively. Thirteen of the isolates from humans were assigned to Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis.  Two additional isolates from ATL cases corresponded to L. (V.) guyanensis. The parasites from dogs were also assigned to L. (V.) braziliensis; the characterization of Leishmania isolates from this animal were done for the first time in Argentina.  The presence of L. (V.) guyanensis from humans was confirmed in the country. However, no L. (Leishmania) amazonensis was found, though this species was previously reported from the present study area, Salta, Argentina.