[Leish-l] RE : L.donovani in dogs?

Kwang-Poo Chang kwangpoo.chang at rosalindfranklin.edu
Sat Jun 22 16:26:23 BRT 2013


Narayan is absolutely correct in saying that a very thorough detailed study
on-site with persistent efforts by a multidisciplinary consortum is very
necessary in all endemic site.

KP

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:23 AM, narayan raj bhattarai <
bhattarai03 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
> To continue the discussion of animal reservoirs in the Indian
> subcontinent, it is not known so far the existence of any animal reservoirs
> in this region. However, several attempts were  already done to understand
> the role of animals in disease epidemiology. A snapshot study was conducted
> under the framework of KALANET project in Nepal (the first known study in
> Nepal) where large number of domestic animals (goats) were found to have
> Leishmania DNA (by PCR) and antibody (by  DAT). These findings were
> already published in Parasitology and Emerging infectious Diseases but it
> was not looked in dogs as most of the dogs were street dogs in our study
> set up which donot indeed exclude their possibility as reservoirs. I think
> that more studies are definitely required in the whole region to understand
> the role of animals to ahceive the goal of running elimination programme.
> This should be further topics for comprehensive research as well.
>
> The papers are here:
>
>  1.      Khanal B, Picado A, Bhattarai NR, Van Der Auwera G, Das ML, OstynB, Davies CR,
> Boelaert M, Dujardin JC, Rijal S (2010): Spatial analysis of Leishmania
> donovani exposure in humans and domestic animals in a recent kala azarfocus in Nepal
> Parasitology,137(11):1597-603.
> 2.    Bhattarai NR, Van der Auwera G, Rijal S, Picado A, Speybroeck N,
> Khanal B, De Doncker S, Das ML, Ostyn B, Davies C, Coosemans M, Berkvens D,
> Boelaert M, Dujardin JC (2010): Domestic animals and epidemiology of
> visceral leishmaniasis, Nepal
> <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20113552>Emerg Infect Dis,16(2):231-7.
>
> thanks
> regards
> Narayan
>
> ======================
> Dr. Narayan Raj Bhattarai
> Associate Professor
> Department of Microbiology
> B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal
> Email: bhattarai03 at yahoo.com
>
>
>
>   *From:* Ken Katakura <kenkata at vetmed.hokudai.ac.jp>
> *To:* Leish-L <leish-l at lineu.icb.usp.br>
> *Sent:* Friday, June 21, 2013 6:16 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Leish-l] RE : L.donovani in dogs?
>
> Dear all,
>
> We have published a PCR-positive dog case in Mymensingh district in
> Bangladesh (see the attached pdf file).
> In additional investigations, we also found rk39-positive dogs and
> PCR-positive
> dogs in the same area (paper in preparation).
>
> Ken
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Afif Ben salah
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 2:02 PM
> To: jeffrey shaw ; Leish-L
> Subject: [Leish-l] RE : L.donovani in dogs?
>
>
> Dear Jeff,
> I know that Nouzha Guessous in Morocco isolated strains of L. Donovani
> from
> dogs .
> Prof. Afif Ben Salah
> Institut Pasteur de Tunis
>
>
> De : leish-l-bounces at lineu.icb.usp.br [leish-l-bounces at lineu.icb.usp.br]
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> la part de jeffrey shaw [jayusp at hotmail.com]
> Date d'envoi : mercredi 19 juin 2013 13:33
> À : Leish-L
> Objet : [Leish-l] L.donovani in dogs?
>
>
> Steve Reed  says:
> "I am in Bangladesh…they think they have L donovani in dogs here
>
> Is that the case in China? Or elsewhere?"
>
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>
> Does anybody know of a bone fide ID of donovani in dogs?
>
>
>
>
> Jeff
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