Epidemiological aspects of the evolution of Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis in Santarém, Pará, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Camargo Júnior, Raimundo Nonato Colares
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Cunha , Thayná de Oliveira Birro, Lima , Dennis José da Silva, Silva, Welligton Conceição da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno de Ciências Agrárias (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/ccaufmg/article/view/41354
• topic: Kalazar; Serological survey; Public health; Zoonosis; Calazar; Inquérito sorológico; Saúde pública; Zoonose

The Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis (CVL), popularly known as kalazar, is a disease characterized as an anthropo- zoonosis of great prominence in Public Health because it primarily affects canid animals, rodents, among others, and accidentally in the man.  The present study aims to clarify the main epidemiological aspects of VCL occurred and recorded in the municipality of Santarém, PA, between the period of 2015 and 2016, as well as to verify how TR DPP, a screening test, and may result as non-reagents and reagents; subsequently submitted to the ELISA (Enzyme Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay) confirmatory test, which may be negative, indeterminate, and positive. As a result, a 2016 increase in the number of animals tested, serologically non-reactive and reagents for the screening test was obtained, as well as an increase in the animals submitted for the confirmatory test with negative and positive results and a decrease for the animals submitted to the ELISA test, with indeterminate results. The present work showed important aspects in the epidemiology of dogs with canine visceral leishmaniasis in the municipality of Santarém, Pará, with emphasis on the year 2016, which showed an increase in all observed aspects, better saying, in the number of animals tested and in the number of animals. positive animals for the two tests used.