Publications

pacui virus, phlebotomine flies, and small mammals in brazil: an epidemiological study.	pacui virus, originally obtained from forest rodents, was isolated 100 times from 61,437 specimens (658 pools) of the phlebotomine fly lutzomyia flaviscutellata, collected from rodent-baited traps in the forests of belem, para, brazil in the period october 1968 through september 1970. isolations were made from engorged and unengorged females and from males (3 strains), and occurred in all 24 months. pacui virus also was isolated from the blood of two wild rodents (oryzomys), but not from 424 l. ...	1975	235226
cutaneous leishmaniasis due to leishmania (leishmania) amazonensis in amazonian brazil, and the significance of a negative montenegro skin-test in human infections.	the clinical and epidemiological features of 62 cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis due to leishmania (leishmania) amazonensis, from pará state, amazonian brazil, are discussed. the parasite, isolated in hamster skin and/or blood-agar culture medium, was in each case identified by both biological characteristics and a monoclonal antibody specific for promastigotes of l. (l.) amazonensis. of the 62 patients, 46 (74.2%) presented with a single cutaneous lesion, and on no occasion was evidence found i ...	1991	1801340
leishmaniasis in brazil. xxiv. natural flagellate infections of sandflies (diptera: psychodidae) in pará state, with particular reference to the rôle of psychodopygus wellcomei as the vector of leishmania braziliensis braziliensis in the serra dos carajás.	between july 1983 and december 1984 natural flagellate infections were found in 114 (1%) of 11,586 female phlebotomine sandflies (diptera: psychodidae) of 21 species. a further 1084 females of 17 other species were not infected. identification of the organisms on a number of occasions confirms the exclusive parasite/vector relationship of leishmania mexicana amazonensis/lutzomyia flaviscutellata and le. braziliensis braziliensis/psychodopygus "wellcomei". undescribed or unidentified leishmania s ...	1987	3686628