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González K, Calzada JE, Saldaña A, et al. Survey of wild mammal hosts of cutaneous leishmaniasis parasites in panamá and costa rica. Trop Med Health. 2014;43(1):75-8doi: 10.2149/tmh.2014-30.
González, K., Calzada, J. E., Saldaña, A., Rigg, C. A., Alvarado, G., Rodríguez-Herrera, B., Kitron, U. D., Adler, G. H., Gottdenker, N. L., Chaves, L. F., & Baldi, M. (2015). Survey of wild mammal hosts of cutaneous leishmaniasis parasites in panamá and costa rica. Tropical medicine and health, 43(1), 75-8. https://doi.org/10.2149/tmh.2014-30
González, Kadir, et al. "Survey of wild mammal hosts of cutaneous leishmaniasis parasites in panamá and costa rica." Tropical medicine and health vol. 43,1 (2015): 75-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.2149/tmh.2014-30
González K, Calzada JE, Saldaña A, Rigg CA, Alvarado G, Rodríguez-Herrera B, Kitron UD, Adler GH, Gottdenker NL, Chaves LF, Baldi M. Survey of wild mammal hosts of cutaneous leishmaniasis parasites in panamá and costa rica. Trop Med Health. 2015 Mar;43(1):75-8. doi: 10.2149/tmh.2014-30. Epub 2014 Dec 06. PMID: 25859156; PMCID: PMC4361339.
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Trop Med Health. 2015 Mar;43(1):75-8. doi: 10.2149/tmh.2014-30. Epub 2014 Dec 06.

Survey of wild mammal hosts of cutaneous leishmaniasis parasites in panamá and costa rica.

Tropical medicine and health

Kadir González, José E Calzada, Azael Saldaña, Chystrie A Rigg, Gilbert Alvarado, Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera, Uriel D Kitron, Gregory H Adler, Nicole L Gottdenker, Luis Fernando Chaves, Mario Baldi

Affiliations

  1. Departamento de Parasitología, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud (ICGES) , Apartado Postal No. 0816-02593, Ciudad de Panamá, República de Panamá
  2. Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica , Apartado Postal 11501-2060, San Pedro, Costa Rica.
  3. Department of Environmental Studies, Emory University , Atlanta, GA, 30322 USA.
  4. University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh , Oshkosh, WI, 54901 USA.
  5. Department of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia , Athens, GA, 30602 USA.
  6. Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University , 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan ; Programa de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales (PIET), Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional , Apartado Postal 304-3000, Heredia, Costa Rica.
  7. Programa de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales (PIET), Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional , Apartado Postal 304-3000, Heredia, Costa Rica.

PMID: 25859156 PMCID: PMC4361339 DOI: 10.2149/tmh.2014-30

Abstract

The eco-epidemiology of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is driven by animal reservoir species that are a source of infection for sand flies that serve as vectors infecting humans with Leishmania spp parasites. The emergence and re-emergence of this disease across Latin America calls for further studies to identify reservoir species associated with enzootic transmission. Here, we present results from a survey of 52 individuals from 13 wild mammal species at endemic sites in Costa Rica and Panama where ACL mammal hosts have not been previously studied. For Leishmania spp. diagnostics we employed a novel PCR technique using blood samples collected on filter paper. We only found Leishmania spp parasites in one host, the two-toed sloth, Choloepus hoffmanni. Our findings add further support to the role of two-toed sloths as an important ACL reservoir in Central America.

Keywords: Leishmania spp.; reservoir; zoonotic disease

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