On 25th February, 1982, a boy aged two years and two months was brought to the Children's Hospital in La Paz with a six-month history of diarrhoea, vomiting, fever and asthenia. On 14th April, a tentative diagnosis of ...

Abstract. 132 Trypanosoma cruzi stocks were collected in southern Bolivia (99 stocks in Tupiza, 33 in Tarija), and were characterized using five enzymes (six loci). From these 132 stocks, a sample of 21 was studied using ...

Summary. The epidemiological study of kala-azar in the "Yungas" focus shows that L. longipalpis, a predominant phlebotomine sandfly in peridomestic areas (96% of catches) is the main vector, Dissections of L. longipalpis ...

We report the first description ofr visceral canine leishmaniasis in Bolivia. In a first stage (October 1980), three dogs presenting mucous nasal lesions were found to be infected with Leishmania (numerous amastigotes on ...

ln this paper, Dick Ashford, Philipe Desjeux ond Peter deRaadt attempt to estimate the total number of people at risk of acquiring disease caused by infetion with Leishmania spp. ln many areas a very small risk is distributed ...

Abstract. A total of 116 sera of patients suffering from South American mucocutaneous leishmaniasis were analysed using the RAST (L. braziliensis-specific) and RIST techniques. Results of total and specific IgE levels ...

Abstract. A clinical, serological, parasitological and therapeutic study of cutaneous leishmaniasis was carried out in a low sub-andean area (250-800 metres) of the La Paz Department, Bolivia. A team of seismic prospectors ...

Abstract . Wild and domestic Triatoma infestans from the Cochabamba region of Bolivia were virtually identical at l9 gene loci coding for enzymes. No allele was distinctive of either the wild or the domestic populations. ...

Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas' disease, is a very heterogeneous population of parasites circulating among man, vectors and wild and domestic reservoirs. Until now, few data have been ...

Résumé. La transmission de la leishmaniose tégumenta¡re due á Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis dépend á la fois de l'environnement et des act¡v¡tés humaines. Dans les zones cultivées des Yungas les habitants sont ...