| native rodent species are unlikely sources of infection for leishmania (viannia) braziliensis along the transoceanic highway in madre de dios, peru. | an estimated 2.3 million disability-adjusted life years are lost globally from leishmaniasis. in peru's amazon region, the department of madre de dios (mdd) rises above the rest of the country in terms of the annual incidence rates of human leishmaniasis. leishmania (viannia) braziliensis is the species most frequently responsible for the form of disease that results in tissue destruction of the nose and mouth. however, essentially nothing is known regarding the reservoirs of this vector-borne, ... | 2014 | 25062033 |
| visceral infection by porocephalus spp. (pentastomida) in neotropical wild mammals. | larval stages of pentastomids were collected from different organs of small mammals from the peruvian amazon. these parasitized mammals included: a western amazonian oryzomys (hylaeamys perenensis), an elegant oryzomys (euryoryzomys nitidus), a lowland paca (cuniculus paca), two kinkajous (potos flavus), two silvery woolly monkeys (lagothrix poeppigii) and a brown-mantled tamarin (leontocebus fuscicollis). pentastomids were found in the mesentery and parenchyma of the liver and lungs of these an ... | 2020 | 32238198 |