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Transmission potential, skin inflammatory response, and parasitism of symptomatic and asymptomatic dogs with visceral leishmaniasis

BLA Verçosa1 email, CM Lemos1 email, IL Mendonça1 email, SMMS Silva1 email, SM de Carvalho1 email, H Goto2 email and FAL Costa1 email

Departamento de Clinica e Cirurgia Veterinária, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade Federal do Piauí, Teresina-Pi, Brasil

Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Faculdade de Medicina, Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo-SP, Brasil

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BMC Veterinary Research 2008, 4:45doi:10.1186/1746-6148-4-45

Published: 6 November 2008

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Table 1. Clinical signals, xenodiagonosis and inflammatory infiltrate in 23 Leishmania (L.) chagasi-naturally infected serologically and parasitologically positive dogs, Xeno = xenodiagnosis; Ly = lymphocyte; Mf = macrophage; PMN = polymorphonuclear; ND = not done

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Table 2. Semi-quantitative analysis of amastigotes in skin of Leishmania (L.) chagasi-naturally infected dogs. Imunoperoxidase

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