Detection of amastigotes and histopathological alterations in the thymus of Leishmania infantum-infected dogs.
Aurea V A da SilvaTainã L de SouzaFabiano B FigueiredoArtur A V MendesLuiz C FerreiraCamila P B FilgueiraPatricia CuervoRenato PorrozziRodrigo C MenezesFernanda Nazaré MorgadoPublished in: Immunity, inflammation and disease (2020)
These results demonstrate that the thymus of dogs can be parasitized by L. infantum, which may generate inflammatory reactions leading to alterations in thymic microarchitecture.