[Leish-l] Leishmaniasis - Brazil (RJ)

[fred opperdoes]

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> Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 04:01:04 -0400 (EDT)
> From: ProMED-mail <promed at promed.isid.harvard.edu>
> Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Leishmaniasis - Brazil (RJ)
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> LEISHMANIASIS - BRAZIL (RIO DE JANEIRO)
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> Date: Mon 7 May 2007
> Source: O Globo, Brazil [in Portuguese, translated & summarised -  
> Mod.JW,
> edited]
> <http://oglobo.globo.com>
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>
> The 1st case of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by _Leishmania  
> amazonensis_
> in the state of Rio de Janeiro has been diagnosed in an inhabitant  
> of a
> rural forested area near Paraty, a popular seaside resort, who  
> became ill
> at the end of 2006. _L. amazonensis_ can cause widespread  
> ulceration of the
> skin, in contrast to the focal lesions of _L. braziliensis_, of  
> which 1-2
> cases a month are seen routinely in Paraty. _L. amazonensis_ has been
> spreading from Amazonia and has been found in the states of Bahia  
> in the
> northeast, Mato Grosso in the center, and Santa Catarina further  
> south than
> even Rio de Janeiro.
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> [The phlebotomine (sand fly) vectors are being investigated by the
> Immunoparasitology Laboratory of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz in Rio de
> Janeiro. The reservoir of _L. braziliensis_ is domestic animals,  
> while that
> of _L. amazonensis_ is wild rodents. Treatment for both is the same, a
> series of 20 daily injections, probably meglumine antimonate. -  
> Mod.JW]