title: American visceral leishmaniasis: wild animal hosts.
abstract: In Colombia it has been suggested that the rodent Proechimys canicollis may be a reservoir-host of Leishmania (L.) chagasi, the cause of American visceral leishmaniasis, based on polymerase chain reaction/hybridization tests. We have detected no infection in laboratory-bred specimens of another species, P. guyannensis, after their inoculation with promastigotes or amastigotes of this parasite from Amazonian Brazil.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Avenida Almirante Barroso 492, 66090-000 Belém, Pará, Brazil. ralphlainson@iec.pa.gov.br
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lainson
authors.forename: E A Y
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
authors.forename: F T
authors.initials: FT
authors.lastname: Silveira
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild / Q000469:parasitology*; D001938:Brazil; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D018314:Leishmania infantum / Q000302:isolation & purification; D007898:Leishmaniasis, Visceral / Q000635:transmission*; D012377:Rodentia / Q000469:parasitology*