1.
East Afr Med J
; 76(9): 501, 1999 Sep.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-10685319
2.
Vet Parasitol
; 74(2-4): 315-8, 1998 Jan 31.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-9561716
ABSTRACT
Domestic sheep were intradermally inoculated with culture-derived stationary phase Leishmania donovani promastigotes. Sampling of site of inoculation, liver and spleen for 244 days showed that this parasite can stay alive in the skin for up to 28 days post-inoculation. Apart from pyrexia that was evident in all the animals for 42 days, no other symptoms of kala-azar were seen. No parasites were recovered from the visceral organs throughout the sampling period, suggesting that sheep are not susceptible to infection with L. donovani. It is therefore unlikely that sheep can be synanthropic reservoirs for this parasite.
Subject(s)
Disease Reservoirs , Leishmania donovani/physiology , Leishmaniasis, Visceral/veterinary , Sheep Diseases/parasitology , Animals , Antibodies, Protozoan/blood , Disease Susceptibility , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay/veterinary , Injections, Intradermal/veterinary , Kenya , Leishmania donovani/immunology , Leishmaniasis, Visceral/parasitology , Liver/parasitology , Male , Sheep , Skin/parasitology , Spleen/parasitology
3.
East Afr Med J
; 72(7): 476, 1995 Jul.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-7498035