A serological and molecular investigation of American cutaneous leishmaniasis in dogs, three years after an outbreak in the Northwest of Paraná State, Brazil Investigação sorológica e molecular da leishmaniose tegumentar americana em cães, três anos após um surto, no Noroeste do Estado do Paraná, Brasil

• Main Authors: Gustavo Kiyoshi Massunari (Author), Evandra Maria Voltarelli (Author), Demilson Rodrigues dos Santos (Author), Ademar Rodrigues dos Santos (Author), Luiz Paschoal Poiani (Author), Otílio de Oliveira (Author), Raul Jorge Violato (Author), Ricardo Matsuo (Author), Ueslei Teodoro (Author), Maria Valdrinez Campana Lonardoni (Author), Thaís Gomes Verzignassi Silveira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Classic and molecular (polymerase chain reaction - PCR) techniques were used to diagnose American cutaneous leishmaniasis in 149 dogs from an area in the northwest of Paraná State, Brazil, where an American cutaneous leishmaniasis outbreak occurred in 2002. The results were compared to a set of pre...