Ecology of a reservoir of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the region of Thiès (Senegal, West Africa). 6. Characterization and types of isolated Leishmania strains

The authors studied the characterisation and typing of Leishmania strains isolated in the Keur-Moussa focus from human lesions (4 strains), from the digestive tract of Phlebotomus duboscqi (I strain) and from the rodents Mastomys erythroleucus (2 strains) and Tatera gambiana (2 strains). They used t...

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Published inBulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales Vol. 75; no. 2; p. 155
Main Authors Dedet, J P, Saf'Janova, V M, Desjeux, P, Emelyanova, L P, Schnur, L F, Chance, M L
Format Journal Article
LanguageFrench
Published France 01.03.1982
Subjects
Animals
Cricetinae
Disease Reservoirs
Female
Humans
Leishmania - classification
Leishmania - ultrastructure
Leishmaniasis - transmission
Male
Mice
Senegal
Senegal
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Summary:The authors studied the characterisation and typing of Leishmania strains isolated in the Keur-Moussa focus from human lesions (4 strains), from the digestive tract of Phlebotomus duboscqi (I strain) and from the rodents Mastomys erythroleucus (2 strains) and Tatera gambiana (2 strains). They used the following criteria: amastigote measurements, kinetoplast ultrastructure, pathogenicity in mice and hamsters, isoenzymes, kinetoplast and nuclear DNA buoyant densities and the Adler test. The results demonstrated that all the strains isolated from the various hosts and the Central Asian Leishmania major strains tested were identical according to these criteria. In addition the four human strains isolated in other regions of Senegal were also identical to those of the Keur-Moussa focus.