SHORT REPORT - LEISHMANIA DNA IN PHLEBOTOMUS AND SERGENTOMYIA SPECIESDURING A KALA-AZAR EPIDEMIC

Authors
MUKHERJEE S HASSAN MQ GHOSH A GHOSH KN BHATTACHARYA A ADHYA S
Citation
S. Mukherjee et al., SHORT REPORT - LEISHMANIA DNA IN PHLEBOTOMUS AND SERGENTOMYIA SPECIESDURING A KALA-AZAR EPIDEMIC, The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 57(4), 1997, pp. 423-425
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath","Tropical Medicine
Journal title
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029637
Volume
57
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
423 - 425
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9637(1997)57:4<423:SR-LDI>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
The presence of Leishmania donovani DNA in sand flies caught in Indian kala-azar patients' dwellings during the epidemic of 1990-1992 was st udied using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Amplification of mini exon-derived RNA genes and gpG3 mRNA was achieved in single Phlebotomu s argentipes, P. papatasi, and Sergentomyia babu flies. The data sugge st the possible involvement of multiple sandfly species in kala-azar t ransmission.