Caracterização biológica, bioquímica e molecular de isolados de Leishmania spp de diferentes áreas endêmicas do Paraguai. / Biological, biochemical and molecular characterization of isolated of Leishmania spp of different endemic areas of Paraguay.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Visceral leishmaniasis (LV) in Paraguay is a Public Health problem in continuous expansion, since its first autochthon case detected in 1945. Cases of VL in human and canines are being detected for the first time in regions considered non-endemic until recently. Consequently and considering the lack of studies related to the etiological agent of VL or the circulating genetic population in Paraguay, a characterization of biological, biochemical and molecular patterns has been carried out using isolates from different endemic areas of this country. In the present study, nineteen samples were isolated and studied by their development pattern in culture medium, isoenzyme electrophoresis and multilocus microsatellite analysis. The results obtained show that all studied Leishmania populations had identical phenotypic characteristics by in vitro growth pattern. Isoenzymatic characterization showed an electrophoretic pattern typical of L. infantum (sin L. chagasi) zimodeme -1 for all the isolated samples. In concordance to current literature that attributes a wide distribution of this parasite as aethiological agent of LV in many endemic areas in Americas; it seems to be widespread in Paraguay also. Genetic variability has been analyzed, using multilocus microsatellite technique (MLMT). Comparison of molecular patterns of paraguayan isolates of canine and human origin with samples isolated in brazilian regions was carried out. The most differentiated genotype was detected in one unique isolate from a cutaneous lesion of an HIV coinfected patient, located in Brazil. This interesting result sets the base ground for a more thorough analysis of this scenario. The results show that the MLMT is a sensitive technique to detect polymorphism within the studied L. infantum population. Though, a certain level of polymorphism has been detected, the short number of analysed samples allows no ecological or epidemiological correlations to be made.

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leishmania infantum cães repetições de microssatélites animais isoenzymes paraguay/epidemiology isoenzimas leishmania infantum leishmaniose visceral/epidemiologia paraguai/epidemiologia biologia molecular humanos microsatellite repeats leishmaniasis visceral /epidemiology estudo comparativo

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