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VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY
Volume 187, Issue 3-4, Pages 386-393Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2012.01.034
Keywords
Canine leishmaniosis; Leishmania infantum; Antimony; Amphotericin B; Zymodeme MON-1; MON-281
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- Centre National de Reference des Leishmania (Montpellier, France)
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the susceptibility to anti-leishmanial agents of 24 strains isolated from dogs living in the urban area of Alger lacking drug selection pressure. Two different Leishmania infantum zymodemes, MON-1 and MON-281, were identified in these dogs. The in vitro susceptibility to the main forms of antimonial and amphotericin were assessed on promastigote and amastigote life stages in culture. The results obtained for both parasite life stages were concordant whatever the molecule tested. Moreover, our data showed that isolates belonging to the relatively rare zymodeme of L. infantum, MON-281, were less susceptible to antimony than MON-1, when at the same time there was no significant difference for amphotericin B. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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