Molecular Detection of Leishmania (L.) mexicana (Kinetoplastida: Trypanostomatidae) DNA in Culicoides furens (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from an Area with Autochthonous Canine Leishmaniasis in Northwestern Mexico.
Juan José Ríos-TostadoHipólito Castillo-UretaEdith Hilario Torres-MontoyaJosé Israel Torres-AvendañoVicente Olimón-AndalónCésar Enrique Romero-HigaredaGabriela Silva-HidalgoZazueta-Moreno JmPublished in: Acta parasitologica (2021)
This study offers the first evidence of L. mexicana DNA in C. furens, in an endemic area of canine leishmaniasis in northwestern Mexico, where no evidence exists of the presence of phlebotomine sand fly.