Diagnóstico parasitológico y molecular de tripanosomiasis canina por Trypanosoma evansi en perros asociados a la caza en dos localidades del Departamento de Artigas, Uruguay

Real-time polymerase chain reaction based algorithm for differential diagnosis of Kinetoplastidean species of zoonotic relevance

“…In many cases, these parasitic infections can become pathogenic with devastating health and economic effects. The most common zoonotic infections caused by Kinetoplastids include: i) human African trypanosomiasis (HAT; also known as African sleeping sickness) which is caused by infection with two of the three subspecies of Trypanosoma brucei; ii) infection by Trypanosoma cruzi causative of Chagas disease; iii) infection by Trypanosoma rangeli, a Kinetoplastid parasite considered non-pathogenic for humans but with epidemiological relevance because of overlapping geographical distribution with T. cruzi; iv) Trypanosoma evansi causative of "Surra" disease; v) Trypanosoma vivax and Trypanosoma equiperdum that cause equine and bovine diseases, and vi) infectious by different species of Leishmania, which cause three main forms of Leishmaniases: visceral (also known as kala-azar -the most serious form of the disease), cutaneous (the most common), and mucocutaneous (Mello et al, 1988;Vallejo et al, 1988;Burri and Brun, 2003;Grijalva et al, 2012;Guim et al, 2013;Santos et al, 2015;Villacís et al, 2015;Sasani et al, 2016;Arce-Fonseca et al, 2017;Greif et al, 2018;Parodi et al, 2018;Ribeiro et al, 2018;Travi, 2019).…”