Animal Health/Sanidade Animal: ZOONOSES: Boletin Panaftosa Nº28

Brucelosis / Brucellosis

Brucellosis in dairy cattle and goats in Northern Ecuador. Poulsen KP, Hutchins FT, McNulty CM, Tremblay M, Zabala C, Barragan V, Lopez L, Trueba G, Bethel JW. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014 Mar

Enfermedad de Chagas / Chagas Disease

Chagas disease in the 21st Century: a public health success or an emerging threat? Bonney KM. Parasite. 2014; 21: 11

Genotyping of Trypanosoma cruzi in a hyper-endemic area of Colombia reveals an overlap among domestic and sylvatic cycles of Chagas disease. Mejía-Jaramillo AM, Agudelo-Uribe LA, Dib JC, Ortiz S, Solari A, Triana-Chávez O. Parasit Vectors. 2014 Mar; 7 (1): 108

Interruption of vector transmission by native vectors and "the art of the possible". Salvatella R, Irabedra P, Castellanos LG. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2014 Feb; 109 (1): 122-30

A multi-species bait for Chagas disease vectors. Mota T, Vitta AC, Lorenzo-Figueiras AN, Barezani CP, Zani CL, Lazzari CR, Diotaiuti L, Jeffares L, Bohman B, Lorenzo MG. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014 Feb; 8 (2): e2677

Leishmaniasis

Aspects of the ecology of Phlebotomines (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in an area of cutaneous leishmaniasis ocurrence, municipality of Angra dos Reis, coast of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Aguiar GM, Azevedo AC, Medeiros WM, Alves JR, Rendeiro V. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo. 2014 Mar-Apr; 56 (2): 143-9

Mucocutaneous Leishmania tropica infection in a dog from a human cutaneous leishmaniasis focus. Baneth G, Zivotofsky D, Nachum-Biala Y, Yasur-Landau D, Botero AM. Parasit Vectors. 2014 Mar; 7 (1): 118

Recombinant Leishmania infantum heat shock protein 83 for the serodiagnosis of cutaneous, mucosal, and visceral leishmaniasis. Celeste BJ, Arroyo Sanchez MC, Ramos-Sanchez EM, Castro LG, Lima Costa FA, Goto H. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014 Mar

Synthetic sex pheromone in a long-lasting lure attracts the visceral leishmaniasis vector, Lutzomyia longipalpis, for up to 12 Weeks in Brazil. Bray DP, Carter V, Alves GB, Brazil RP, Bandi KK, Hamilton JG. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014 Mar; 8 (3): e2723

Leptospirosis

Genotypes of pathogenic Leptospira spp isolated from rodents in Argentina. Loffler SG, Pavan ME, Vanasco B, Samartino L, Suarez O, Auteri C, Romero G, Brihuega B. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2014 Feb

A retrospective analysis of the leptospirosis research in Colombia. Dechner A. J Infect Dev Ctries. 2014 Mar; 8 (3): 258-64

Rabia / Rabies

Intradermal vaccination for rabies prophylaxis: conceptualization, evolution, present status and future. Madhusudana SN, Mani RS. Expert Rev Vaccines. 2014 Mar

Phylodynamics of vampire bat-transmitted rabies in Argentina. Torres C, Lema C, Gury Dohmen F, Beltran F, Novaro L, Russo S, Freire MC, Velasco-Villa A, Mbayed VA, Cisterna DM. Mol Ecol. 2014 Mar

Zoonosis / Zoonoses

Diagnosis and management of zoonoses - A tool for general practice. Gunaratnam P, Massey PD, Eastwood K, Durrhein D, Graves S, Coote D, Fisher L. Aust Fam Physician. 2014 Mar; 43 (3): 124-8