Directions for the diagnosis, clinical staging, treatment and prevention of canine leishmaniosis

L Solano-Gallego, A Koutinas, G Miró, L Cardoso… - Veterinary …, 2009 - Elsevier
Canine leishmaniosis (CanL) due to Leishmania infantum is a life threatening zoonotic
disease with a wide distribution in four continents and importance also in non-endemic …

Canine leishmaniosis–new concepts and insights on an expanding zoonosis: part one

G Baneth, AF Koutinas, L Solano-Gallego… - Trends in …, 2008 - cell.com
Recent research has provided new insights on the epidemiology, pathology and
immunology of canine leishmaniosis (CanL) and its genetic basis. The prevalence of …

Methods for diagnosis of canine leishmaniasis and immune response to infection

C Maia, L Campino - Veterinary parasitology, 2008 - Elsevier
Canine leishmaniasis (CanL) caused by Leishmania infantum (syn. L. chagasi, in Latin
America), which is transmitted by the bite of phlebotomine sand flies, is endemic and affects …

Biomarkers Associated With Leishmania infantum Exposure, Infection, and Disease in Dogs

C Maia, L Campino - Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Canine leishmaniosis (CanL) is a vector-borne disease caused by the protozoan
Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum species [syn. L.(L.) infantum chagasi species in the …

Protective immunity against challenge with Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi in beagle dogs vaccinated with recombinant A2 protein

AP Fernandes, MMS Costa, EAF Coelho… - Vaccine, 2008 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigated in dogs the immunogenicity and protective immunity against
Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi infection induced by vaccination with a formulation …

Canine visceral leishmaniasis: Diagnosis and management of the reservoir living among us

BL Travi, A Cordeiro-da-Silva… - PLoS neglected …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
This article reviews essential topics of canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL) due to
Leishmania infantum infection. It focuses on the current serological and molecular …

Insights on adaptive and innate immunity in canine leishmaniosis

S Hosein, DP Blake, L Solano-Gallego - Parasitology, 2017 - cambridge.org
Canine leishmaniosis (CanL) is caused by the parasite Leishmania infantum and is a
systemic disease, which can present with variable clinical signs, and clinicopathological …

Advances in the pathogenesis of canine leishmaniosis: epidemiologic and diagnostic implications

MN Saridomichelakis - Veterinary dermatology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Canine leishmaniosis caused by Leishmania infantum (Syn. L. chagasi) is an important
zoonosis with a complex pathogenesis. Parasite transmission occurs via female sandflies …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis: identification of Leishmania species by PCR-RFLP and quantification of parasite DNA by real-time PCR

PF Quaresma, SMF Murta, E de Castro Ferreira… - Acta tropica, 2009 - Elsevier
The efficacies of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) procedures for the diagnosis of canine
visceral leishmaniasis (CVL), and of PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) …

Use of domperidone in the treatment of canine visceral leishmaniasis: a clinical trial

P Gómez-Ochoa, JA Castillo, M Gascón, JJ Zarate… - The Veterinary …, 2009 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of domperidone, a dopamine D2 receptor
antagonist, in dogs naturally infected by Leishmania infantum. Ninety-eight dogs were …