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Phlebotomine sandfly (Diptera: Psychodidae) diversity and their Leishmania DNA in a hot spot of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis human cases along the Brazilian border with Peru and Bolivia.
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 10 Jun 2016
Teles Carolina Bioni Garcia, Santos Ana Paula de Azevedo Dos, Freitas Rui Alves, Oliveira Arley Faria José de, Ogawa Guilherme Maerschner, Rodrigues Moreno Souza, Pessoa Felipe Arley Costa, Medeiros Jansen Fernandes, Camargo Luís Marcelo Aranha
Abstract excerpt
In this study, we identified the phlebotomine sandfly vectors involved in the transmission of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) in Assis Brasil, Acre, Brazil, which is located on the Brazil-Peru-Bolivia frontier. The genotyping of Leishmania in phlebotomines was performed using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism. A total of 6,850 sandflies comprising 67 species...
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