Amiloidosis en Didelphis marsupialis infectado experimentalmente con Leishmania chagasi / Amyloidosis in infected Didelphis marsupialis
Biomédica (Bogotá)
;
22(3): 237-240, sep. 2002.
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in Spanish
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| ID: lil-330485
ABSTRACT
A male opossum, Didelphis marsupialis, captured in Teruel (Huila), Colombia, was inoculated intraperitoneally with 1 x 10(6) promastigotes of Leishmania chagasi (MHOM/CO/84/CL044B). The animal died 5 weeks after inoculation. Autopsy revealed signs of visceral leishmaniasis along with amastigote parasite form in Kupffer cells and spleen macrophages. Amyloid deposits in liver and spleen were demonstrated by histological staining and electron microscopy. The rapid death was considered a consequence of a secondary, reactive amyloidosis.
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Main subject:
Leishmania infantum
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Amyloidosis
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Leishmaniasis, Visceral
Limits:
Animals
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Biomédica (Bogotá)
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2002
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Colombia
Institution/Affiliation country:
Instituto Nacional de Salud/CO
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