Journal
TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
Volume 106, Issue 2, Pages 134-136Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2011.11.001
Keywords
Canine leishmaniasis; Autochthonous; Leishmania infantum; Pyrenees; Lleida; Spain
Funding
- Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia of Spain [AGL2004-06909-C02-01]
- Department d'Universitats, Recerca i Societat de la Informacio de la Generalitat de Catalunya (Spain) [2009SGR385]
- European Union [GOCE-2003-010284 EDEN]
- EDEN
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Canine leishmaniasis (CanL) is a widespread disease present in 42 countries. It is considered of epidemiological importance because of its role as a reservoir of human leishmaniasis. Knowledge of the real distribution of CanL and its emergence and/or re-emergence is of great importance in order to determine the extension of the disease. This work reports the detection of CanL in a farm dog located in a Pyrenean area of northwest Catalonia (Spain) where the disease was previously unknown. Since the dog had never left the region and sandfly vectors, Phlebotomus ariasi and P. perniciosus, were present in the farm the case is considered as autochthonous and is the first to be published in this region of Spain. (C) 2011 Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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