Raquel S. Pacheco

TL;DR: The age distribution of visceral leishmaniasis cases in the MRBH shows a higher prevalence in children from 0-4 years old, responsible for 28.9% of the notifications, and an urbanization of the disease in this region of Minas Gerais.

TL;DR: Results indicate that, under experimental conditions, symptomatic dogs are about four times more infective to VL vectors than oligosymptomatic or asymPTomatic animals.

TL;DR: Phenotypic and genotypic identity support endogenous reactivation as the mechanisms of recurrent disease in patients from the Pacific coast of Colombia and have important implications for both treatment evaluation and vaccination strategies for American tegumentary leishmaniasis.

TL;DR: This work is the first report of the detection of L. (L.) chagasi in a naturally infected T. rattus and T. apereoides, and the utility of filter paper as a substrate for PCR analyses and the efficacy of the procedure associated to the hybridization is emphasized.

TL;DR: Two former patients treated for the cutaneous form of American tegumentary leishmaniasis were reviewed eight and 11 years, respectively, following clinical cure, and the histopathology revealed discreet hyperceratosis and a slight infiltrate of mononuclear cells surrounding and on the walls of the surface and deep dermal vessels.