Geospatial analysis of tegumentary leishmaniasis in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil from 2000 to 2015: Species typing and flow of travelers and migrants with leishmaniasis.
Luciana de Freitas Campos MirandaRaquel da Silva PachecoMaria Inês Fernandes PimentelMariza de Matos SalgueiroAline Fagundes da SilvaCíntia Xavier de MelloJuliana Helena da Silva BarrosClaudia Maria Valete-RosalinoMaria de Fátima MadeiraSamanta Cristina das Chagas XavierArmando de Oliveira SchubachPublished in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2019)
This work is the first contribution to the knowledge of the routes of Leishmania species introduced in RJ state by migrants and travelers patients. L. (V.) braziliensis, L. (V.) guyanensis, L. (V.) naiffi, L. (L.) amazonensis, and genetic variants of L. (V.) braziliensis were identified in RJ state. To determine whether the autochthonous transmission of these imported species is possible it is necessary the adaptation of these species to environmental conditions as well as the presence of reservoirs and phlebotomine vectors in this region.