Experimental infection parameters in Galea spixii (Rodentia: Caviidae) with Leishmania infantum chagasi

AUTOR(ES)

Barbosa, Patrícia Batista Barra Medeiros, Queiroz, Paula Viviane Sousa de, Jerônimo, Selma Maria B, Ximenes, Maria de Fátima Freire de Melo

FONTE

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008-09

RESUMO

In order to better understand the epidemiological transmission network of leishmaniasis, an endemic disease in Northeast Brazil, we investigated the susceptibility of Spix yellow-toothed cavies (Galea spixii) to the Leishmania infantum chagasi parasite. Nine cavies were experimentally infected, separated into three groups and monitored at 30, 90 and 180 days, respectively. Amastigotes were identified in the spleen slides of two cavies killed 180 days after infection. Antibodies against the L. i. chagasi were identified in one of the cavies. This demonstrates that G. spixii is in fact capable of maintaining a stable infection by L. i. chagasi without alterations in biochemical and hematological parameters of the host and without perceivable micro and macroscopic lesions.

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