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Am J Trop Med Hyg ; 103(5): 1934-1937, 2020 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32901597

RESUMO

The period between the infective sandfly bites and appearance of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) lesions is still hypothetical and little studied. This work aimed at assessing the incubation time of zoonotic CL (ZCL) due to Leishmania major using a standardized methodology. The retrospective analysis used the epidemiological, clinical, and biological information available in the database recording all the CL cases diagnosed at the Parasitology Department of the Pasteur Institute of Tunis during 2015-2019. It allowed for the selection of 92 privileged observations 1) of confirmed CL cases with presentation suggestive of ZCL form 2) living in northern regions free of ZCL 3) with a single infective trip of less than a week to ZCL foci during transmission season and 4) with accurate dates of travel and onset of lesions. Incubation length computed in this population ranged from 1 to 21 weeks, with a median of 5 weeks (interquartile range: 3-8.5 weeks).


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Período de Incubação de Doenças Infecciosas , Leishmania major/fisiologia , Leishmaniose Cutânea/epidemiologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Animais , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Feminino , Geografia , Humanos , Lactente , Leishmaniose Cutânea/parasitologia , Leishmaniose Cutânea/transmissão , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos Retrospectivos , Tunísia/epidemiologia , Adulto Jovem , Zoonoses
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Am J Trop Med Hyg ; 101(1): 101-107, 2019 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31094311

RESUMO

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) remains one of the world's most prevalent neglected diseases, particularly in developing countries. Identification of the involved Leishmania species is an important step in the diagnosis and case management process. In this study, we tested simple, rapid, and highly sensitive loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assays for Leishmania DNA species-specific detection from cutaneous lesions. Two LAMP assays, targeting cysteine protease B (cpb) gene, were developed to detect and identify Leishmania major and Leishmania tropica species. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification specificity was examined using DNA samples from other Leishmania species and Trypanosoma species. No cross-reactions were detected. The developed LAMP assays exhibited sensitivity with a detection limit of 20 fg and 200 fg for L. major and L. tropica, respectively. Both tests were applied on clinical samples of CL suspected patients living in endemic Tunisian regions and compared with kinetoplast DNA quantitative PCR (qPCR), microscopic, and conventional cpb-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays. Our LAMP tests were able to discriminate between L. major and L. tropica species and showed a sensitivity of 84% and a specificity of 100%. However, when compared with the performance of the diagnostic tests with latent class analysis (LCA), our LAMP assays show a sensitivity of 100%. These assays can be used as a first-line molecular test for early diagnosis and prompt management of CL cases in public health programs.


Assuntos
Leishmania major/genética , Leishmania tropica/genética , Leishmaniose Cutânea/diagnóstico , Leishmaniose Cutânea/epidemiologia , Humanos , Leishmaniose Cutânea/parasitologia , Doenças Negligenciadas/diagnóstico , Doenças Negligenciadas/epidemiologia , Doenças Negligenciadas/parasitologia , Técnicas de Amplificação de Ácido Nucleico , Especificidade da Espécie , Tunísia/epidemiologia
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