title: Natural infection of Lutzomyia neivai and Lutzomyia sallesi (Diptera: Psychodidae) by Leishmania infantum chagasi in Brazil.
abstract: Natural infections with Leishmania were found in females of the phlebotomine sand flies Lutzomyia neivai (Pinto) (= Nyssomyia neivai) and Lutzomyia sallesi (Galvão & Coutinho) (= Evandromyia sallesi) (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Lassance, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Promastigotes were found in the pyloric region of the former species and in the abdominal midgut of the latter species. Insects found to be infected by microscopic examination were macerated in saline solution and inoculated into hamsters. Subsequent analysis by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism revealed both isolates to belong to the species Leishmania infantum chagasi Cunha & Chagas.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Leishmanioses, Instituto René Rachou-Fiocruz, Av. Augusto de Lima 1715, CEP 30190-002 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Lara
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Saraiva
authors.forename: Gustavo M L
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.forename: Célia M F
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Gontijo
authors.forename: Patrícia F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Quaresma
authors.forename: Ana C V M R
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Lima
authors.forename: Alda L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Falcão
authors.forename: José D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Andrade Filho
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D006224:Cricetinae; D005260:Female; D018314:Leishmania infantum / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008297:Male; D008647:Mesocricetus; D011576:Psychodidae / Q000469:parasitology*