Lutzomyia longipalpis in Uruguay: the first report and the potential of visceral leishmaniasis transmission Oscar Daniel Salomón; Yester Basmajdian; María Soledad Fernández; María Soledad Santini PAGE: 381-382 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000300023

Leishmania infection in humans, dogs and sandflies in a visceral leishmaniasis endemic area in Maranhão, Brazil Ilana Mirian Almeida Felipe; Dorlene Maria Cardoso de Aquino; Oliver Kuppinger; Max Diego Cruz Santos; Maurício Eduardo Salgado Rangel; David Soeiro Barbosa; Aldina Barral; Guilherme Loureiro Werneck; Arlene de Jesus Mendes Caldas PAGE: 207-211 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000200015

Detection of Leishmania infantum in naturally infected Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) and Canis familiaris in Misiones, Argentina: the first report of a PCR-RFLP and sequencing-based confirmation assay Soraya Alejandra rn Acardi ; Domingo Javier Liotta; rn María Soledad Santini; Carlo Mariano Romagosa; rn Oscar Daniel Salomón PAGE: 796-799 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762010000600011

Immune response to Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi infection is reduced in malnourished BALB/c mice Tiago Donatelli Serafim; Guilherme Malafaia; Marcelo Eustáquio Silva; Maria Lúcia Pedrosa; Simone Aparecida Rezende PAGE: 811-817 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762010000600014

Association of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) population density with climate variables in Montes Claros, an area of American visceral leishmaniasis transmission in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil Érika Monteiro Michalsky; Consuelo Latorre Fortes-Dias; João Carlos França-Silva; Marilia Fonseca Rocha; Ricardo Andrade Barata; Edelberto Santos Dias PAGE: 1191-1193 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000800020

Reproductive isolation between sympatric and allopatric Brazilian populations of Lutzomyia longipalpis s.l. (Diptera: Psychodidae) Nataly A Souza; Claudia A Andrade-Coelho; Felipe M Vigoder; Richard D Ward; Alexandre A Peixoto PAGE: 216-219 | DOI: S0074-02762008000200017

Abundance of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) and urban transmission of visceral leishmaniasis in Campo Grande, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil Alessandra Gutierrez de Oliveira; Eunice Aparecida Bianchi Galati; Orcy de Oliveira; Gilliard Rezende de Oliveira; Italo Alexander Cabello Espindola; Maria Elizabeth Cavalheiros Dorval; Reginaldo Peçanha Brazil PAGE: 869-874 | DOI: S0074-02762006000800008

Lutzomyia longipalpis in Brazil: a complex or a single species? A mini-review Luiz GSR Bauzer; Nataly A Souza; Rhayza DC Maingon; Alexandre A Peixoto PAGE: 01-12 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007000100001

Distribution of phlebotomine fauna (Diptera: Psychodidae) across an urban-rural gradient in an area of endemic visceral leishmaniasis in northern Brazil Davi Marcos Souza de Oliveira; Elvira Maria Saraiva; Edna Aoba Yassui Ishikawa; Adelson Alcimar Almeida de Sousa; Edilene Oliveira da Silva; Ivoneide Maria da Silva PAGE: 1039-1044 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000800023

Report of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva, 1912) (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in a cutaneous-leishmaniasis-endemic area of Panama Anayansi Valderrama; Mara Garcia Tavares; José Dilermando Andrade Filho PAGE: 1049-1051 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000800025

Identification of the natural breeding sites of sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae), potential vectors of leishmaniasis, in the province of Chaco, Argentina Matías Ariel Parras; Juan Ramón Rosa; Enrique Alejandro Szelag; Oscar Daniel Salomón PAGE: 550-552 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000400018

Cytokines and visceral leishmaniasis: a comparison of plasma cytokine profiles between the clinical forms of visceral leishmaniasis  Alinne Silva Andrade Costa; Graciomar Conceição Costa; Dorlene Maria Cardoso de Aquino; Vitor Rosa Ramos de Mendonça; Aldina Barral; Manoel Barral-Netto; Arlene de Jesus Mendes Caldas PAGE: 735-739 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000600005

Lutzomyia longipalpis abundance in the city of Posadas, northeastern Argentina: variations at different spatial scales  María Soledad Santini; María Soledad Fernández; Adriana Alicia Pérez; Adolfo Enrique Sandoval; Oscar Daniel Salomón PAGE: 767-771 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000600010

Use of the Kala-Azar Detect® and IT-LEISH® rapid tests for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil  Vanessa Peruhype-Magalhães; Tália Santana Machado-de-Assis; Ana Rabello PAGE: 951-952 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000700019

Sensitivity and specificity of polymerase chain reaction in Giemsa-stained slides for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in children Yvone Maia Brustoloni ; Rosimar Batista Lima; Rivaldo Venâncio da Cunha; Maria Elizabeth Dorval; Elisa Teruya Oshiro; Ana Lúcia Lyrio de Oliveira; Claude Pirmez PAGE: 497-500 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007005000036

Phlebotominae distribution in Janaúba, an area of transmission for visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil Érika Monteiro Michalsky; João Carlos França-Silva; Ricardo Andrade Barata; Fabiana de Oliveira Lara e Silva; Angélica Marciano Fernandes Loureiro; Consuelo Latorre Fortes-Dias; Edelberto Santos Dias PAGE: 56-61 | DOI: S0074-02762009000100009

Effect of untreated bed nets on blood-fed Phlebotomus argentipes in kala-azar endemic foci in Nepal and India Albert Picado; Vijay Kumar; Murari Das; Ian Burniston; Lalita Roy; Rijal Suman; Diwakar Dinesh; Marc Coosemans; Shyam Sundar; Kesari Shreekant; Marleen Boelaert; Clive Davies; Mary Cameron PAGE: 1183-1186 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000800018

Visceral leishmaniasis in border areas: clustered distribution of phlebotomine sand flies in Clorinda, Argentina Oscar D Salomón ; María G Quintana; Mario R Bruno; Ricardo V Quiriconi; Viviana Cabral PAGE: 801-804 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000500024

HIV/AIDS-associated visceral leishmaniasis in patients from an endemic area in Central-west Brazil Priscilla Alexandrino-de-Oliveira; Joanna Reis Santos-Oliveira; Maria Elizabeth Cavalheiros Dorval; Francisco das Chagas Brandão Da-Costa; Gracy Regina Oliveira Leite Pereira; Rivaldo Venâncio da Cunha; Anamaria Mello Miranda Paniago; Alda Maria Da-Cruz PAGE: 692-697 | DOI: S0074-02762010000500016

Spatial and temporal changes in Lutzomyia longipalpis abundance, a Leishmania infantum vector in an urban area in northeastern Argentina María Soledad Fernández, María Soledad Santini, Regino Cavia, Adolfo Enrique Sandoval, Adriana Alicia Pérez, Soraya Acardi, Oscar Daniel Salomón PAGE: 817-824 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130047

Parasite load and risk factors for poor outcome among children with visceral leishmaniasis. A cohort study in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2010-2011 Maria Vitória Assumpção Mourão, Antonio Toledo Jr,Luciana Inácia Gomes, Verônica Vieira Freire, Ana Rabello PAGE: 147-153 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140257

Antileishmanial IgG and IgE Antibodies Recognize Predominantly Carbohydrate Epitopes of Glycosylated Antigens in Visceral Leishmaniasis AM Atta, R Colossi, MLB Sousa-Atta, SMB Jeronimo, MDSB Nascimento, GF Bezerra, G Orge, EM Carvalho PAGE: 525-530

Subclinical Form of the American Visceral Leishmaniasis Mônica Elinor Alves Gama, Jackson Maurício Lopes Costa, Cláudia Maria Castro Gomes, Carlos Eduardo Pereira Corbett PAGE: 889-893

Lutzomyia longipalpis in Clorinda, Formosa province, an area of potential visceral leishmaniasis transmission in Argentina Oscar D Salomón, Pablo W Orellano* PAGE: 475-476

Predicting the geographic distribution of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) and visceral leishmaniasis in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil Paulo Silva de Almeida Alan Sciamarelli, Paulo Mira Batista, Ademar Dimas Ferreira,João Nascimento, Josué Raizer, José Dilermando Andrade Filho, Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves PAGE: 992-996 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130331

Oviposition behaviour of Phlebotomus argentipes - A laboratory-based study Vijay Kumar, Aarti Rama, Shreekant Kesari, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Diwakar Singh Dinesh, Pradeep Das PAGE: 1065-1067 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130003

The first record of Lutzomyia longipalpis in the Argentine northwest Andrea Gómez Bravo, María Gabriela Quintana, Marcelo Abril, Oscar Daniel Salomón PAGE: 1071-1073 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130358

Evaluation of the Direct Agglutination Test and the rK39 Dipstick Test for the Sero-diagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis Henk DFH Schallig, Marilene Canto-Cavalheiro, Eduardo S da Silva PAGE: 1015-1018

IgG Anti-IgE Autoantibodies in Visceral Leishmaniasis AM Atta, MLB Sousa-Atta, A D'Oliveira*, RP Almeida*, MI Araújo*, EM Carvalho* PAGE: 101-103

Isolation of Leishmania infantum, Zymodeme MON-1 from Canine and Human Visceral Leishmaniasis on Margarita Island, Venezuela Olga Zerpa, Francine Pratlong*, Marian Ulrich, Jacinto Convit PAGE: 901-902

Deltamethrin-impregnated Dog Collars Have a Potent Anti-feeding and Insecticidal Effect on Lutzomyia longipalpis and Lutzomyia migonei John R David, Luisa M Stamm, Haroldo Sergio Bezerra, Raimundo Nonato Souza, Robert Killick-Kendrick, José Wellington Oliveira Lima PAGE: 839-847

Wing Geometry as a Tool for Studying the Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) Complex J De la Riva, F Le Pont, V Ali, A Matias, S Mollinedo, JP Dujardin PAGE: 1089-1094

Visceral Leishmaniasis in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil Eduardo S Silva, Célia MF Gontijo, Raquel S Pacheco, Vanessa OP Fiuza, Reginaldo P Brazil PAGE: 285-291

Field Monitoring of Cypermethrin Residual Effect on the Mortality Rates of the Phlebotomine Sand Fly Lutzomyia longipalpis in the State of Paraíba, Brazil Laura Ney Marcelino Passerat De Silans, Jean-Pierre Dedet,Jorge R Arias PAGE: 339-344

Ecological Interactions of Visceral Leishmaniasis in the State of Bahia, Brazil Italo A Sherlock PAGE: 671-683

Incipient colonisation of Lutzomyia longipalpis in the city of Resistencia, province of Chaco, Argentina (2010-2012) Enrique Alejandro Szelag, Matías Ariel Parras, Mariela Fabiani, Juan Ramón Rosa, Oscar Daniel Salomón PAGE: 488-491 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130054

A comparison of molecular markers to detect Lutzomyia longipalpis naturally infected with Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum Kárita Cláudia Freitas-Lidani, Iara J de Messias-Reason, Edna Aoba Y Ishikawa PAGE: 442-447 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130285

Phlebotomine fauna, natural infection rate and feeding habits of Lutzomyia cruzi in Jaciara, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil Veruska Nogueira de Brito, Arleana do Bom Parto Ferreira de Almeida, Luciano Nakazato, Rosemere Duarte, Cladson de Oliveira Souza, Valéria Régia Franco Sousa PAGE: 899-904 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140112

Asymptomatic Leishmania chagasi Infection in Relatives and Neighbors of Patients with Visceral Leishmaniasis Argemiro D'Oliveira Júnior, Sérgio Ricardo M Costa, Aurinha Bispo Barbosa, Maria de La Glória Orge Orge, Edgar M Carvalho PAGE: 15-20

Sensitivity and specificity of parallel or serial serological testing for detection of canine Leishmania infection Mauro Maciel de Arruda, Fabiano Borges Figueiredo, Andreza Pain Marcelino, José Ronaldo Barbosa, Guilherme Loureiro Werneck, Elza Ferreira Noronha, Gustavo Adolfo Sierra Romero DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150364

Abundance of Lutzomyia longipalpis in urban households as risk factor of transmission of visceral leishmaniasis Elisa Neves Vianna, Maria Helena Franco Morais, Andréa Sobral de Almeida, Paulo Chagastelles Sabroza, Ilka Afonso Reis, Edelberto Santos Dias, Mariângela Carneiro PAGE: 302-310 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150366

Comparison of optical microscopy and quantitative polymerase chain reaction for estimating parasitaemia in patients with kala-azar and modelling infectiousness to the vector Lutzomyia longipalpis Jailthon C Silva, Danielle A Zacarias, Vladimir C Silva, Nuno Rolão, Dorcas L Costa, Carlos HN Costa PAGE: 517-522 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160185

Seasonality of sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) and Leishmania DNA detection in vector species in an area with endemic visceral leishmaniasis Lara Saraiva, Camila Gonçalves Leite, Ana Cristina Vianna Mariano da Rocha Lima, Luiz Otávio Alves de Carvalho, Agnes Antônia Sampaio Pereira, Jerônimo Marteleto Nunes Rugani, Felipe Dutra Rego, Célia Maria Ferreira Gontijo, José Dilermando Andrade Filho PAGE: 309-318 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160438

Increased thiol levels in antimony-resistant Leishmania infantum isolated from treatment-refractory visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil Lucas S Magalhães, Lays GS Bomfim, Sthefanne G Mota, Geydson S Cruz, Cristiane B Corrêa, Diego M Tanajura, Michael W Lipscomb, Valéria M Borges, Amélia R de Jesus, Roque P de Almeida, Tatiana R de Moura PAGE: 119-125 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170289

Effectiveness of dog collars impregnated with 4% deltamethrin in controlling visceral leishmaniasis in Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidade: Phlebotominae) populations Rafaella Albuquerque e Silva, Andrey José de Andrade, Bruno Beust Quint, Gabriel Elias Salmen Raffoul, Guilherme Loureiro Werneck, Elizabeth Ferreira Rangel, Gustavo Adolfo Sierra Romero DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170377

Use of domperidone in canine visceral leishmaniasis: gaps in veterinary knowledge and epidemiological implications Bruno L Travi, Guadalupe Miró DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180301

Validation of the Dual-path Platform chromatographic immunoassay (DPP® CVL rapid test) for the serodiagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis Fabiano Borges Figueiredo, Tassia Cristina Bello de Vasconcelos, Maria de Fátima Madeira, Rodrigo Caldas Menezes, Ana Nilce Silveira Maia-Elkhoury, Andreza Pain Marcelino, Guilherme L Werneck DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180260

Evaluation of three recombinant proteins for the development of ELISA and immunochromatographic tests for visceral leishmaniasis serodiagnosis Anna Raquel Ribeiro dos Santos, Ângela Vieira Serufo, Maria Marta Figueiredo, Lara Carvalho Godoi, Jéssica Gardone Vitório, Andreza Pain Marcelino, Daniel Moreira de Avelar, Fernandes Tenório Gomes Rodrigues, George Luiz Lins Machado-Coelho, Fernanda Alvarenga Cardoso Medeiros, Selma Maria Bezerra Jerônimo, Edward José de Oliveira, Frederico Crepaldi Nascimento, Santuza Maria Ribeiro Teixeira, Ricardo Tostes Gazzinelli, Ronaldo Alves Pinto Nagem, Ana Paula Fernandes DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180405

Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) Argentina-Bolivia border: new report and genetic diversity María Gabriela Quintana, Angélica Pech-May, Ana Denise Fuenzalida, José Manuel Direni Mancini, Paola Andrea Barroso, Zaida Estela Yadón, Mario Zaidenberg, Oscar Daniel Salomón DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760190184

Where, when, and how the diagnosis of human visceral leishmaniasis is defined: answers from the Brazilian control program João Gabriel Guimarães Luz, Amanda Gabriela de Carvalho,Danilo Bueno Naves, João Victor Leite Dias, Cor Jesus Fernandes Fontes DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760190253

Effects of El Niño-Southern Oscillation on human visceral leishmaniasis in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso do Sul Antonio Brandão da Silva Neto, Everton Falcão de Oliveira, César Claudio Cáceres Encina, Helen Rezende de Figueiredo, Antonio Conceição Paranhos Filho, Alessandra Gutierrez de Oliveira DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760190298

Investigating associations between intestinal alterations and parasite load according to Bifidobacterium spp. and Lactobacillus spp. abundance in the gut microbiota of hamsters infected by Leishmania infantum Fabine Correia Passos, Marcelo Biondaro Gois, Adenilma Duranes Sousa, Ananda Isis Lima de Marinho, Laura Corvo, Manoel Soto, Manoel Barral-Netto, Aldina Barral, Gyselle Chrystina Baccan DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760200377