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Investigation of animal reservoirs of visceral leishmaniasis and the isolation of Leishmania major in Marigat, Baringo District, Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2011

Mutuku J. Mutinga  and
Johnson N. Ngoka
Mutuku J. Mutinga
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 30197, Nairobi, Kenya
Johnson N. Ngoka
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 30197, Nairobi, Kenya
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Abstract

Animals were trapped in Marigat, Baringo District to investigate animal reservoirs of visceral leishmaniasis in an endemic focus of the disease. Several species of rodents, carnivores and reptiles were captured. Specimens of spleen, liver and blood tissues were taken from the animals. The specimens were triturated into sterile saline and then cultured into NNN medium, and some of it injected into hamsters intraperitoneally. Skin biopsies were also taken and cultured in NNN medium. Slide smears of all the tissues taken were made stained with Giemsa stain and examined under the microscope for amastigotes. Four isolates of leishmanial parasites were made from a gerbil and three monitor lizards.

Keywords

Leishmania donovaniLeishmania majoranimal reservoirgerbilsrodentsreptiles
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Research Article
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International Journal of Tropical Insect Science , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , September 1983 , pp. 237 - 240
Copyright
Copyright © ICIPE 1983

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