Leishmaniasis, dogs - USA (04)
Clarisa B. Palatnik
immgcpa at microbio.ufrj.br
Tue May 2 10:07:44 BRT 2000
Dear colleagues,
Here is another reference about diagnosis and prognosis of canine
visceral leishmaniasis.
Borja Cabrera, G.P., da Silva, V.O., da Costa, R.T., Barbosa Reis,
A., Mayrink, W., Genaro, O. & Palatnik de Sousa, CB. 1999.The
FML-ELISA assay in diagnosis and prognosis of canine visceral
leishmaniasis. American Journal of Tropical Medicine.61(2):296-
301.
Best regards
Clarisa B. Palatnik de Sousa
Date sent: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:06:35 -0300 (EST)
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Subject: Leishmaniasis, dogs - USA (04)
> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 00:39:28 -0400 (EDT)
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> Leishmaniasis, dogs - USA: RFI 20000422235237]
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> [1]
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:50:35 -0400
> From: Teresa McShane <teresa_mcshane at email.msn.com>
>
>
> To keep the record straight.....NCSU (North Carolina State University), not
> UNC (University of North Carolina), made the diagnosis. The CDC (Centers
> for Disease Control and Prevention) was contacted after a NCSU small animal
> medicine resident, a clinical pathologist, and 2 senior students made the
> initial diagnosis in one of the hounds sent from New York.
>
> - --
> Teresa M. McShane, Ph.D.
> e-mail: teresa_mcshane at msn.com
>
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> [2]
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 09:28:09 -0400
> From: Weaver T. Capt - 43MDG/SGOAM <Todd.Weaver at pope.af.mil>
>
>
> As a veterinarian and Public Health Officer in the U.S. Air Force, I am
> curious to know if data exists to support the following statement:
>
> "The disease occurs in humans and is common in domestic and wild dogs in
> the Middle East, Italy and Spain. Some speculate U.S. servicemen may have
> brought the disease home in their pets."
>
> Military working dogs and pets owned by service men and women are examined
> by Army veterinarians and are subject to the same regulations as all other
> dogs requiring health certificates.
>
> Also, as graduate of the North Carolina State University, College of
> Veterinary Medicine, I ask that we not be confused with the University of
> North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "It would be nice to hear from either the
> consulting veterinarian or those who made the diagnosis at UNC."
>
> - --
> J. TODD WEAVER, Capt, USAF,BSC
> Chief, Public Health
> Pope AFB
> e-mail: Todd.Weaver at pope.af.mil
>
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> [3]
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 21:17:50 -0400
> From: Janyce Brown <janycebrown at thesurfacereport.com>
>
>
> My husband is a returning Gulf War Veteran and has received "service
> - -connection" to Leishmaniasis: viscerotropic Leishmaniasis and one of the
> leading authorities is Katherine Murray Leisure in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
> She has treated over 600 veterans and civilians. She works out of Good
> Samaritan Hospital. This is not only being transmitted by dogs,... the
> Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Administration have
> recognized for sometime sand flies most likely are not the only vectors
> and any vertebrate is a potential reservoir. There is even a select
> steering committee on the status of _Leishmania tropica_. Look to the WHO
> (World Health Organization) for statistics on co-infection with HIV (Human
> Immunodeficiency Virus). ProMED-mail even carried information about and
> outbreak in Central America this past year.
>
> - --
> Janyce E. Brown
> Editor/Publisher
> The Surface Report
> e-mail: janycebrown at thesurfacereport.com
>
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> [4]
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:22:43 -0600
> From: Donoghue, Ann <donogha at HESKA.com>
>
>
> An ELISA, using K39 as the diagnostic antigen, is available for the
> diagnosis of canine leishmaniasis.
>
> References:
> Sundar S, Reed SG, Singh VP, Kumar PC, Murray HW. Rapid accurate field
> diagnosis of Indian visceral leishmaniasis. Lancet, 1998 Feb,351:9102,
> 563-5
>
> Houghton RL, Petrescu M, Benson DR, Skeiky YA, Scalone A, Badaro R, Reed
> SG, Gradoni L. A cloned antigen (recombinant K39) of _Leishmania chagasi_
> diagnostic for visceral leishmaniasis in human immunodeficiency virus type
> 1 patients and a prognostic indicator for monitoring patients undergoing
> drug therapy. J Infect Dis, 1998 May, 177:5, 1339-44
>
> Bhatia A, Daifalla NS, Jen S, Badaro R, Reed SG, Skeiky YA. Cloning,
> characterization and serological evaluation of K9 and K26: two related
> hydrophilic antigens of _Leishmania chagasi_. Mol Biochem Parasitol, 1999
> Aug, 102:2, 249-61
>
> Jelinek T, Eichenlaub S, Loscher T. Sensitivity and specificity of a rapid
> immuno-chromatographic test for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis. Eur J
> Clin Microbiol Infect Dis, 1999 Sep, 18:9, 669-70
>
> Singh S, Gilman Sachs A, Chang KP, Reed SG. Diagnostic and prognostic
> value of K39 recombinant antigen in Indian leishmaniasis. J Parasitol,
> 1995 Dec, 81:6, 1000-3
>
> Burns JM Jr, Shreffler WG, Benson DR, Ghalib HW, Badaro R, Reed SG.
> Molecular characterization of a kinesin-related antigen of _Leishmania
> chagasi_ that detects specific antibody in African and American visceral
> leishmaniasis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 1993 Jan, 90:2, 775-9
>
> Gradoni L, De Luna R, Oliva G, Scalone A., Mondesire R., Simpson D. and GR
> Frank. Evaluation of a recombinant _Leishmania chagasi_ antigen as a
> diagnostic marker for _Leishmania infantum_-infected dogs. First World
> Congress on Leishmaniosis, Istanbul, Turkey. May 1997. (Abstract No. 183).
>
> Frank GR. A recombinant antigen based diagnostic for canine visceral
> Leishmania infections. The National Managed Health Care Congress:
> Veterinary Diagnostics, Tempe, Arizona, 8-9 Dec 1997
>
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> Ann R Donoghue, DVM, MS
> e-mail: donogha at HESKA.com
>
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