[Leish-l] Leish-l Digest, Vol 52, Issue 10

Thu Apr 12 08:54:39 BRT 2012

 For many years, our kind colleagues at Hadassah Medical School sent out an informal news letter: "The Leishmaniac."
The "Leishmaniac" was well read and greatly enjoyed by the leish community.
The historic Leishmaniac newsletter served the leish scientific community then, in similar manner as the leish network does now.

The leish network provides a critical communication forum to allow free discourse in preliminary discussion, a "sounding board," assessable to a broad sector of the global leish community..
Often in one's career, it is helpful to share ideas, health issues, breaking news with one's colleagues to gain prompt feedback.
Global feedback is a powerful tool available to our leish community.
Such informal discussions have always held an important place in science together with more formal peer-reviewed publications.

The leish network, now accessible to most, encourages participation of a broad leish community uniting us in our research with colleagues.
It allows us as leish-scientists to toss our "socccer ball ideas,"  let the global leish team kick the ideas around, and, using team feedback, reach our collective research goal for excellence.

Bravo to Professor Shaw for his hard work to establish and maintain this network forum!

Joan Jackson, PhD, JD
email: jacksonall at aol.com

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   1. Re: Leisjh-L and Citability (Chang, Kwang-Poo)
   2. Re: Madrid visceral leishmaniasis outbreak -JAVIER ENCINAS -
      (Reginaldo Pe?anha Brazil)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 12:18:57 -0500
From: "Chang, Kwang-Poo" <KwangPoo.Chang at rosalindfranklin.edu>
Subject: Re: [Leish-l] Leisjh-L and Citability
To: jeffrey shaw <jayusp at hotmail.com>, Leish-L
	<leish-l at lineu.icb.usp.br>
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I urge Dr. Shaw to continue his effort with the activities of the network 
communication as before. Anything provided as attachment by the sender along 
with the message will be his or her responsibility. A disclaimer is needed to 
indicate this and also to indicate screening of messages at the discretion of 
the webmaster. My suggestion about screening is not to pass any scientific 
judgments, but to screen out junk mails or unrelated/non-scientific topics.

KP 

________________________________

From: leish-l-bounces at lineu.icb.usp.br [mailto:leish-l-bounces at lineu.icb.usp.br] 
On Behalf Of jeffrey shaw
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 10:15 AM
To: Leish-L
Subject: [Leish-l] Leisjh-L and Citability

KP raised a very important point in his reply to Isra?s comment on the Madrid VL 
outbreak by saying that:

" It is understood that such informal communications do not constitute a formal 
scientific publication, but do help spread the information more quickly to the 
scientific community." 

For the reasons given by KP Leish-L communications are not eligible as citations 
in formal publications.  The idea behind the messages is simply to make people 
aware of recent breakthroughs and advances and to encourage informal informal 
discussions on any subject remotely related to leishmaniasis.

This brings me to question the acceptability of web-links as sources of 
information  in dissertations, theses and papers. 

With best wishes

Jeffrey    

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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 20:25:57 -0300 (BRT)
From: Reginaldo Pe?anha Brazil <rpbrazil at ioc.fiocruz.br>
Subject: Re: [Leish-l] Madrid visceral leishmaniasis outbreak -JAVIER
	ENCINAS -
To: "Satoskar, Abhay" <Abhay.Satoskar at osumc.edu>
Cc: ????????? <wangjy0 at yahoo.com.cn>,	"gscdcjsc at 163.com"
	<gscdcjsc at 163.com>, qingqi qu <qujingqi at yahoo.com>,	Zhou Xiaonong
	<ipdzhouxn at sh163.net>,	gao chunhua <gaochunhua1976 at yahoo.com.cn>,	Ning
	Xiao <ningxiao116 at yahoo.com.cn>, "Chang,	Kwang-Poo"
	<kwangpoo.chang at rosalindfranklin.edu>, ??????
	<majiying72 at hotmail.com>,	Zhao-Rong Lun <cpozrlun at gmail.com>, jeffrey
	shaw <jayusp at hotmail.com>,	Leish-L <leish-l at lineu.icb.usp.br>,
	"liaolif at 21cn.com" <liaolif at 21cn.com>,	junjie chai
	<chaijunjie2004 at yahoo.com.cn>
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	<59217.177.0.127.92.1333668357.squirrel at correio.ioc.fiocruz.br>
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Dear All; 
��I mean
to send this comments to all in Leish list but I was forward only to Dr. Davis . 
So
Im sending again:.�

There is no native rabbit in the New World.
Although there are several species of hares in Americas (at least 16) it�s
possible that most is extinct or is��
in danger of extinction. Sylvilagus brasiliensis (known as tapiti in
Brazil�(Tupi-Guarany language)) occurs from Mexico to Argentina and is the
commom hare in Brazil.� There are few
studies with this species and probably none related Leishmania infection.

European hare (Lepus europaeus), introduced from Europe become a
pest in some areas of Argentina and south Brazil and with this we have also no 
idea
of the epidemiological importance. With this new epidemiological situation in 
Spain,
studies with native�hares and even introduced� hares are
necessary.

Best wishes,
Reginaldo P.
Brazil
-- 
Pesquisador Titular 
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Lab. Bioqu�mica & Fisiologia de Inseto 
Av.Brasil 4365 
Pav.Leonidas 
Deane-S/213 
Rio de Janeiro -21045-900 
Tel: 021-3865
8134 
Fax: 021-3865-8200 

> Could rabbits be resevoirs for
L. Chagasi transmitted to dogs in North America? Abhay R Satoskar MD, PhD 
>
Professor 
> 
Departments of Pathology and Microbiology 
> 129
Hamilton Hall 
> 1645 Neil Avenue 
> The Ohio State University 
> Columbus, Ohio 
> Tel: 614-366-3417 
>
________________________________________ 
> From:
leish-l-bounces at lineu.icb.usp.br [leish-l-bounces at lineu.icb.usp.br] On 
Behalf

> Of Chang, Kwang-Poo [KwangPoo.Chang at rosalindfranklin.edu] 
>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 2:33 PM 
> To: jeffrey shaw; Leish-L 
> Cc: �����&Scaron;��&lsquo;;
gscdcjsc at 163.com; qingqi qu; Zhou Xiaonong; gao 
chunhua; Ning Xiao; 
>
liaolif at 21cn.com; ������; Zhao-Rong Lun; junjie chai 
> Subject: Re: [Leish-l] Madrid visceral leishmaniasis outbreak -JAVIER ENCINAS
- 
> 
> Attached please find the pdf file of an article by Liao,
Lifu et al., which described Tarim hare (rabbit) as the reservoir for VL caused 
by L
infantum in the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang, PR China. The article was 
published
in 2009 in a Chinese Journal with English abstract. 
> 
>
Liao�&euro;&trade;s finding is now supported by Dr. Javier
Encinas�&euro;&trade; 
discovery that rabbit 
> could
serve as the reservoir for the recent outbreak of VL also caused by L 
infantum

> in Madrid, Spain. 
> 
> Our Tunisian colleagues published
articles earlier, which reported the use of rabbits as bait to attract and 
collect
sandfly vectors. 
> 
> The role of lagomorphs [the Leporidae (hares
and rabbits), and the Ochotonidae (pikas)] as the potential reservoirs of L 
infantum
deserves attention for further detailed investigation in these and other endemic
sites of infantile VL. 
> 
> KP Chang 
> 
> Please
circulate the message to other colleagues. 
> 
>
________________________________ 
> From: leish-l-bounces at lineu.icb.usp.br
[mailto:leish-l-bounces at lineu.icb.usp.br] 
On 
> Behalf Of jeffrey shaw

> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 6:55 PM 
> To: Leish-L 
>
Subject: [Leish-l] Madrid visceral leishmaniasis outbreak -JAVIER ENCINAS - 
> 
> Google translation of Dr Javier Encinas email received from Vitor
Ribeiro 
> 
> I was told you that there was outbreak of human
leishmaniasis in Madrid 
Fuenlabrada 
> that is still being
investigated. 
> 
> Information update: 
> 
> -To
date there have been approximately 240 human cases of visceral leishmaniasis 
(period
2009-2012) in a specific area of Madrid with 600.000 inhabitantes (Fuenlabrada). 
The
annual average "normal" is about 20 human cases / year in this community
of Madrid. 
> 
> - Vector studies revealed the presence of
P.perniciosus and S. minuta in high densities 
> 
> - Prevalence in
reservoirs: 
> 
> -the canine reservoir has barely risen above 7%
(the prevalence canine "normal" in the community of Madrid is around 6%).

> 
> cats-prevalence was somewhat higher at 7.2% 
> 
> * To study the prevalence was observed in rabbits that was 29%, and molecular
biology techniques (dr Israel Cruz), was demonstrated that this was the 
reservoir of
L.Infamtum, which apparently caused the outbreak. ** 
> 
> This data
was presented at the International Symposium held in Madrid on 26 and 27 

> March 2012. 
> 
> Coming soon will be making a Publication of
these data. 
> 
> Also attached is the circular that the veterinary
school of Madrid has issued 
today 
> on this new situation. 
>

> 
> Greetings to all 
> 
> ARAGON JAVIER ENCINAS

> Head of the Environmental Health Area 6 
>
________________________________ 
> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:14:15 -0700

> From: ribeirovm at yahoo.com.br 
> Subject: Enc: JAVIER ENCINAS
-Madrid brote de leishmaniasis 
> To: jayusp at hotmail.com 
> CC:
leish-l at lineu.icb.usp.br 
> 
> ----- Mensagem encaminhada ----- 
> 
De: Encinas Arag��n.Francisco Javier
<javier.encinas at salud.madrid.org> 
> Para: vitor ribeiro
ribeirovm at yahoo.com.br<mailto:ribeirovm at yahoo.com.br>; Enviadas: Quinta-feira,
29 de Mar��o de 2012 9:48 
> Assunto: JAVIER ENCINAS -Madrid
brote de leishmaniasis 
> 
> Cuando estuve alli os
cont�� que habia en Madrid -Fuenlabrada un brote de leishmaniasis
humana, que aun estabamos investigando. 
> 
> Os actualizo
informacion: 
> 
> -Hasta la fecha ha habido unos 240 casos humanos
de Leishmaniasis principalmente visceral ( periodo 2009-2012) en una zona 
concreta
de madrid de unos 600.000habitantes ( Fuenlabrada), cuando la media anual
"normal" es de unos 20 
casos 
> humanos /a��o
en la comunidad de madrid. 
> 
> -Al estudiar el vector se comprobo
la presencia de p.perniciosus y S, minuta en densidades altas 
> 
>
-Al estudiar la prevalencia en reservorios: 
> 
> -el reservorio
canino esta prevalencia casi no habia subido , estaba en torno al 7% ( la
prevalencia canina "normal", en la comunidad de madrid es en torno al 6%
). 
> 
> -en gatos la prevalencia era algo mas alta del 7,2% 
> 
> * al estudiar la prevalencia en liebres se observo que era del
29%, y por tecnicas de Biologia molecular ( dr Israel Cruz ), quedo demostrado 
que
este era el reservorio de L. Infamtum, que al parecer ha causado el brote.** 
> 
> Estos datos se expusieron en el Simposium Internacional celebrado
en Madrid los 
dias 
> 26 y 27 de marzo de 2012. Proximamente se va a
hacer una Publicacion de estos datos. 
> 
> tambien os adjunto la
circular que el colegio de veterinarios de madrid ha emitido 

> hoy
ante esta nueva situacion. 
> 
> 
> un saludo a todos 
> 
> - 
> 
> 
> JAVIER ENCINAS ARAGON 
> Jefe de Secci��n de Sanidad Ambiental Area 6 
> 
> Asunto: Nota de prensa del Colegio de Veterinarios de Madrid sobre
leishmaniasis [cid:image001.jpg at 01CD0F42.A08D85E0] 
> Estimados
colegiados/as: 
> 
> Ante las noticias aparecidas en el
d��a de ayer en diversos medios de 
comunicaci��n 
> sobre casos de Leishmaniasis visceral en humanos detectados en Fuenlabrada,
el Colegio de Veterinarios de Madrid ha enviado a los medios una nota de prensa 
que

os 
> incluimos a continuaci��n para vuestro conocimiento
e informaci��n. 
> 
> NOTA DE PRENSA 
> 
> EL COLEGIO DE VETERINARIOS DE MADRID AFIRMA QUE LOS PERROS NO CONTAGIAN LA
LEISHMANIASIS DIRECTAMENTE A LAS PERSONAS NI A OTROS ANIMALES 
> 
>

> . La Leishmaniasis est�� causada por un
par��sito llamado leishmania y es transmitida por la picadura de un
mosquito denominado flebotomo, que act��a como vector de la enfermedad

> 
> . El perro es el reservorio habitual del
par��sito pero no contagia la enfermedad directamente a otros animales
ni a las personas. Es imprescindible la participaci��n del vector
(mosquito). 
> 
> . Se trata de una enfermedad de baja incidencia en
la poblaci��n y que, diagnosticada a tiempo, responde bien al
tratamiento 
> 
> . El control sanitario de los animales por parte
de los veterinarios es 
fundamental 
> para la prevenci��n
y control de la enfermedad 
> 
> 
> Madrid, 27 de marzo.
Ante las noticias aparecidas en el dia de hoy en diversos medios de
comunicaci��n sobre casos de Leishmaniasis visceral detectados en
Fuenlabrada el Colegio de Veterinarios de Madrid desea trasladar una serie de
consideraciones. 
> 
> La Leishmaniasis es una enfermedad causada
por un par��sito llamado leishmania y transmitida por la picadura de un
mosquito espec��fico denominado "flebotomo", que 

> act��a como vector. Se trata de una enfermedad de baja incidencia
en la poblaci��n 

> a la que son especialmente sensibles,
inmunodeprimidos y enfermos cr��nicos. Si es 

>
diagnosticada a tiempo, responde bien al tratamiento. 
> 
> El
reservorio habitual es el perro, pero para que la enfermedad se trasmita es
imprescindible la participaci��n del vector (mosquito flebotomo). Los
perros no contagian la enfermedad directamente a otros animales ni a las 
personas,
por ninguna v��a, seg��n afirma el Colegio de Veterinarios de
Madrid. 
> 
> Seg��n fuentes de la
Consejer��a de Sanidad se ha informado de la existencia de casos humanos
de leishmaniasis visceral en los municipios de Fuenlabrada, Legan��s 

> y Getafe, un entorno que, desde los a��os 60 hasta ahora,
ha evolucionado de peque��os municipios de escasa
poblaci��n y ��mbito rural a una zona de amplio desarrollo
urbano, que ha incrementado su poblaci��n hasta los 600.000 habitantes

y 
> donde las modificaciones urban��sticas han derivado en
cambios medioambientales. 
> 
> Este h��bitat, en
opini��n de los expertos, favorece la multiplicaci��n de 
vectores 
> (flebotomo) en los municipios citados as�� como la
aparici��n de posibles reservorios secundarios como la liebre que, en
los parques urbanos, ha proliferado 

> significativamente dado que no
se ve amenazada por depredadores naturales y se ha convertido en una fuente de
alimentaci��n para el mosquito flebotomo, transmisor 
de 
>
la leishmaniasis 
> 
> Seg��n datos de la
Consejer��a de Sanidad, en los casos detectados de 
leishmaniasis

> humana del tipo visceral no se ha producido ning��n
fallecimiento. Todos los afectados han respondido satisfactoriamente al 
tratamiento.

> 
> Ante esta situaci��n, se ha desarrollado una
intensa investigaci��n que ha 
derivado 
> en la puesta en
marcha de un programa de prevenci��n y control de la leishmaniasis 

> en el que han intervenido de forma conjunta y coordinada la
Direcci��n General de Ordenaci��n e Inspecci��n
de la Consejer��a de Sanidad de la Comunidad de Madrid, la
Consejer��a de Medio Ambiente, el Instituto de Salud Carlos III, los
Ayuntamientos de Fuenlabrada, Legan��s y Alcorc��n, la
Universidad Complutense de Madrid y el Colegio de Veterinarios de Madrid. 
>

> El Colegio de Veterinarios de Madrid coordin�� una
investigaci��n entre las cl��nicas de los municipios
mencionados anteriormente que puso de manifiesto que, entre los perros que 
acuden a
dichas cl��nicas y que se encuentran desparasitados 
y 
>
bajo control sanitario por parte de los veterinarios cl��nicos, no
exist��a un aumento de la prevalencia de la enfermedad. 
> 
> El Colegio de Veterinarios de Madrid, en el marco del Convenio de
colaboraci��n 
que 
> mantiene con la
Consejer��a de Sanidad, en lo referente a la prevenci��n y
control 

> de zoonosis, ha coordinado la solicitud de
informaci��n y de vigilancia en las cl��nicas veterinarias y
ha realizado el programa de control y an��lisis de los perros de los
centros de protecci��n animal de la zona, en colaboraci��n
con la Consejer��a de Medio Ambiente y adem��s ha editado,
conjuntamente con la Consejer��a de Sanidad, 14.000 folletos informativos
de la enfermedad
(VER<http://www.colvema.org/WV_descargas/leishmaniosis-27032012185408.pdf>).

> 
> Los expertos consultados por el Colegio, han ratificado que
las medidas de vigilancia y control del vector y los reservorios que se
est��n llevando a cabo son las adecuadas, recomendando que los animales
est��n debidamente desparasitados 

> y controlados
sanitariamente por veterinarios cl��nicos especialistas en animales de
compa����a, ��nicos profesionales capacitados
para ello y quienes mejor pueden aconsejar a los ciudadanos acerca de sus dudas 
e
inquietudes respecto a esta enfermedad, sus v��as de contagio y su
prevenci��n. 
> 
> [cid:image002.jpg at 01CD0F42.A08D85E0]

> 
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o

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