Etiology of cutaneous leishmaniasis and anthropophilic vectors in Juruti, Pará State, Brazil Etiologia da leishmaniose cutânea e vetores antropofílicos em Juruti, Estado do Pará, Brasil

• Auteurs principaux: Lourdes Maria Garcez (Auteur), Daniela Cristina Soares (Auteur), Anadeiva Portela Chagas (Auteur), Gilberto César Rodrigues de Souza (Auteur), Jefferson Francisco Correia Miranda (Auteur), Habib Fraiha (Auteur), Lucile Maria Flöeter-Winter (Auteur), Heloísa Marceliano Nunes (Auteur), Ricardo Andrade Zampiere (Auteur), Jeffrey Jon Shaw (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2009-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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In a preliminary study in Juruti, a mining municipality in western Pará State, Brazil, 12 out of 21 patients suspected of presenting cutaneous leishmaniasis showed positive PCR (SSUrDNA and G6PD): Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis (9/12; 75%) and L. (V.) sp. (3/12; 25%). Entomological studies in th...