| leishmaniasis in sardinia: ii. natural infection of phlebotomus perniciosus newstead, 1911, by leishmania infantum nicolle, 1908, in the province of cagliari. | two promastigote-infected specimens of phlebotomus perniciosus newstead, 1911, were found in the province of cagliari, italy. the parasites from one specimen were successfully cultured in a hamster. the isolate was typed on 11 enzymes and shown to be identical with the reference strain of leishmania infantum s.st. this is the first typing of a leishmanial organism from naturally infected p. perniciosus. | 1986 | 3798544 |
| leishmaniasis in sardinia. i. observations on a larval breeding site of phlebotomus perniciosus, phlebotomus perfiliewi perfiliewi and sergentomyia minuta (diptera: psychodidae) in the canine leishmaniasis focus of soleminis (cagliari). | during the summer-autumn period of 1983 and 1984, 1408 specimens of phlebotomus perniciosus, 74 of p. perfiliewi perfiliewi and 35 of sergentomyia minuta were caught in emergence traps in a locality close to the village of soleminis, a canine leishmaniasis focus 15 km from cagliari, sardinia. all the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building. male flies were highly predominant for all three species. a few larvae of p. perniciosus were also collected from the s ... | 1986 | 3800470 |
| leishmaniasis in sardinia: an introductory note. | preliminary data on a project planned in sardinia for the epidemiological study of leishmaniases are presented. twenty-six dogs were found infected in the south-western part of the island. nine isolates were successfully stabilated . in a canine leishmaniasis focus on the outskirts of cagliari, phlebotomus perniciosus was the predominant sandfly species (95%). in the same area, 28 specimens of rattus norvegicus were trapped and their spleen homogenate was injected into hamsters. no leishmania ha ... | 1983 | 6673847 |
| [sandflies in italy: observations on their distribution and methods for control]. | the paper analyzes published and unpublished data of sandfly collections carried out in italy by one of the authors (m.m.) over a period of 18 years (1975-1993). these data are discussed in relation to the collection methods and the habitats. the leishmaniasis foci surveyed are localized in 11 regions of central and southern italy and in the two main islands, sicily and sardinia. five collection methods were used: i) sticky traps, ii) light traps, iii) window exit traps, iv) emergence traps, and ... | 1994 | 7637994 |
| distribution of 'promoter' sandflies associated with incidence of classic kaposi's sarcoma. | the patchy geographical distributions of classic kaposi's sarcoma (ks) and human herpesvirus type 8 (hhv-8), better known as kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (kshv) remain unexplained. it has been proposed that certain species of bloodsucking insects ('promoter arthropods') promote the reactivation of hhv-8/kshv and facilitate both hhv-8/kshv transmission and ks development. this hypothesis was tested by sampling the presence and density of human-biting diptera with cdc light traps in two ... | 2009 | 19712152 |
| leishmaniasis in sardinia. iii. soil analysis of a breeding site of three species of sandflies. | soil analysis was carried out on samples obtained from a breeding-site of the sandflies phlebotomus perniciosus newstead, p. perfiliewi perfiliewi parrot and sergentomyia minuta (rondani) in sardinia. soil texture, ph, caco3, organic matter and water content showed no correlation with the number of sandflies that emerged from the places where soil samples were taken. it appears that pre-imaginal stages of these phlebotomine sandflies are associated with a relatively stable, cool and humid enviro ... | 1988 | 2980160 |