Canine serological survey and dog culling ant its relationship with human visceral leishmaniasis in an endemic urban area.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Visceral leishmaniasis is an important but neglected disease that is spreading and is highly lethal when left untreated. This study sought to measure the Leishmania infantum seroprevalence in dogs, the coverage of its control activities (identification of the canine reservoir by serological survey, dog culling and insecticide spraying) and to evaluate its relationship with the occurrence of the disease in humans in the municipalities of Araçatuba and Birigui, state of São Paulo, Brazil.

Methods

Information from 2006 to 2015 was georeferenced for each municipality and modeling was performed for the two municipalities together. To do this, latent Gaussian Bayesian models with the incorporation of a spatio-temporal structure and Poisson distribution were used. The Be

SUBMITTER: Bermudi PMM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7275440 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature