Natural infection of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Cembrene-1 population) with Leishmania infantum in a new visceral leishmaniasis focus in the eastern region of São Paulo State, Brazil.
Mariana Dantas da SilvaFredy Galvis-OvallosClaudio CasanovaVanessa Gusmon da SilvaJoão Augusto Franco LeonelTrícia Maria Ferreira de Sousa OliveiraEunice Aparecida Bianchi GalatiPublished in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (2021)
We found that the transmission of Le. infantum by cembrene-1 females may occur at a high rate in this focus of VL and presented new data on the vector capacity of this population.