| evidence of leishmania infantum infection in rabbits (oryctolagus cuniculus) in a natural area in madrid, spain. | leishmaniasis is one of the most important neglected zoonosis and remains endemic in at least 88 developing countries in the world. in addition, anthropogenic environmental changes in urban areas are leading to its emergency world wide. zoonotic leishmaniasis control might only be achieved by an integrated approach targeting both the human host and the animal reservoirs, which in certain sylvatic cycles are yet to be identified. recently, hares have been pointed out as competent reservoirs of le ... | 2014 | 24724079 |
| could wild rabbits (oryctolagus cuniculus) be reservoirs for leishmania infantum in the focus of madrid, spain? | xenodiagnosis has previously proved that hares (lepus granatensis) from a focus of leishmaniasis in the southwestern madrid region (spain) are infective to phlebotomus perniciosus, the only vector in the area, thus playing a probable role as active reservoirs in a sylvatic transmission cycle linked to the usual domestic one. although actions have been taken to reduce the population of this lagomorph, a high population of wild rabbits (oryctolagus cuniculus) is present in the area, which shows de ... | 2014 | 24774435 |
| Levels of organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in the critically endangered Iberian lynx and other sympatric carnivores in Spain. | Accumulation of organochlorine compounds is well studied in aquatic food chains whereas little information is available from terrestrial food chains. This study presents data of organochlorine levels in tissue and plasma samples of 15 critically endangered Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) and other 55 wild carnivores belonging to five species from three natural areas of Spain (Doñana National Park, Sierra Morena and Lozoya River) and explores their relationship with species diet. The Iberian lynx, w ... | 2011 | 22099537 |
| phlebotomine sand fly survey in the focus of leishmaniasis in madrid, spain (2012-2014): seasonal dynamics, leishmania infantum infection rates and blood meal preferences. | an unusual increase of human leishmaniasis cases due to leishmania infantum is occurring in an urban area of southwestern madrid, spain, since 2010. entomological surveys have shown that phlebotomus perniciosus is the only potential vector. direct xenodiagnosis in hares (lepus granatensis) and rabbits (oryctolagus cuniculus) collected in the focus area proved that they can transmit parasites to colonized p. perniciosus. isolates were characterized as l. infantum. the aim of the present work was ... | 2017 | 28764772 |
| efficacies of prevention and control measures applied during an outbreak in southwest madrid, spain. | leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease of worldwide distribution, currently present in 98 countries. since late 2010, an unusual increase of human visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis cases has been observed in the south-western madrid region, totaling more than 600 cases until 2015. some hosts, such as human, domestic dog and cat, rabbit (oryctolagus cuniculus), and hare (lepus granatensis), were found infected by the parasite of this disease in the area. hares were described as the most impor ... | 2017 | 29028841 |