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Vol. 26 (2006): Suplemento 1, Leishmaniasis

Published: 2006-10-01

Editorial

Leishmaniasis: A public health challenge that demands concerted effort and will

Nancy Gore Saravia, Rubén Santiago Nicholls

5-9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1493

Imágenes en biomedicina

Natural history of cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis

Carlos Arturo Hernández

10-12
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1494

Case presentation

Miltefosine for disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis

Lina María González, Iván Darío Vélez

13-6
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1495

Original articles

Phagocytosis of promastigotes and amastigotes of Leishmania mexicana by the FSDC dendritic cell line: Ultrastructural study

Ladys Sarmiento, Martha Ayala, Sandra Peña, Gerzaín Rodríguez, Zelandia Fermín, Felix J. Tapia

17-21
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1496
Papel de la vacuola parasitófora de macrófagos de ratón infectados por Leishmania amazonensis en la adquisición de moléculas

Tania M. Cortázar, Joselín Hernández, María Clara Echeverry, Marcela Camacho

26-37
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1497
Comparative immunohistological analysis of the Montenegro skin test reaction in asymptomatic infection and in acute and chronic cutaneous leishmaniasis

Nora Guarín, Gloria Palma, Claude Pirmez, Liliana Valderrama, Rafael Tovar, Nancy Gore Saravia

38-48
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1498
Photodynamic activity of aluminium (III) and zinc (II) phthalocyanines in Leishmania promastigotes

Patricia Escobar, Indira P. Hernández, Cesar M. Rueda, Fernando Martínez, Edgar Páez

49-56
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1499
Effect of blood source on the survival and fecundity of the sandfly Lutzomyia ovallesi Ortiz (Diptera: Psychodidae), vector of Leishmania

Pedro Noguera, Maritza Rondón, Elsa Nieves

57-63
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1500
Distribution of Leishmania infantum vector species in Colombia

Camila González, Olga L. Cabrera, Leonard E. Munstermann, Cristina Ferro

64-72
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1501
Phlebotomine sandflies in the southeast of Lara state, Venezuela

Luis Eduardo Traviezo

73-81
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1502
Presence of infected vectors of Leishmania (V.) panamensis within dwellings in two endemic foci in the foothill of the middle Magdalena valley, western Boyacá, Colombia

Erika Santamaría, Nubia Ponce, Yaneth Zipa, Cristina Ferro

82-94
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1503
Lutzomyia longiflocosa as suspected vector of cutaneous leishmaniasis in a focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis on the sub-andean region of Tolima department, Colombia, and the knowledge on sandflies by the inhabitants

Raúl H. Pardo, Olga Lucía Cabrera, Jorge Becerra, Patricia Fuya, Cristina Ferro

95-108
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1504
Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) at a suburban focus of visceral leishmaniasis in the Chicamocha Canyon, Santander, Colombia.

Mónica Flórez, Junny Patricia Martínez, Reinaldo Gutiérrez, Katherine Paola Luna, Víctor Hugo Serrano, Cristina Ferro, Víctor Manuel Angulo, Claudia Magaly Sandoval

109-20
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1505
Seroprevalence of canine visceral leishmaniasis in sector 8 of Neiva and in four municipalities of Huila, Colombia

José Fernández, Felio Bello, Myriam Consuelo López, Ligia Inés Moncada, Jimmy Jolman Vargas, Martha Stella Ayala, Rubén Santiago Nicholls, Carlos Alberto Lozano

121-30
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1506
Leishmania panamensis transmission in the domestic environment: the results of a prospective epidemiological survey in Santander, Colombia

Gerardo Muñoz, Clive R. Davies

131-44
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1507
Geographic distribution of Leishmania species isolated from patients at the National Institute of Dermatology Federico Lleras Acosta E.S.E., 1995-2005

Clemencia Elena Ovalle, Luisa Porras, Maritza Rey, Melania Ríos, Yenny Carolina Camargo

145-51
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1508
A multifaceted intervention to prevent American cutaneous leishmaniasis in Colombia: results of a group-randomized trial

Carlos A. Rojas, Kristen A. Weigle, Rafael Tovar, Alba L. Morales, Bruce Alexander

152-66
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1509
Effect of knowledge and economic status on sandfly control activities by householders at risk of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the subandean region of Huila department, Colombia

Raúl H. Pardo, Alexander Carvajal, Cristina Ferro, Clive R. Davies

167-79
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1510
Efficacy of a kaurenic acid extracted from the Venezuelan plant Wedelia trilobata (Asteracea) against Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis

Solanny Brito, Oscar Crescente, Alexis Fernández, Aura Coronado, Noris Rodríguez

180-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1511
Efficacy and tolerance of pentamidine for treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by por L. (V) panamensis in Colombia

Sara María Robledo, Juan Alberto Puerta, Diana Lorena Muñoz, Mónica Guardo, Iván Darío Vélez

188-93
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1512

Topic review

Current situation and future of antileihmanial therapy in Colombia

Jaime Soto, Paula Soto

194-206
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1513
Miltefosina oral para el tratamiento de la leishmaniasis

Jaime Soto, Paula Soto

207-17
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1514

Short communication

Species of Lutzomyia (Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) in endemic cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis foci of the department of Santander, in the eastern range of the Colombian Andes

Claudia Magaly Sandoval, Reinaldo Gutiérrez, Rocío Cárdenas, Cristina Ferro

217-27
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1515
First finding of Lutzomyia tihuiliensis (Diptera: Psychodidae) in the Valle de Aburrá, Colombia

Eduar Elías Bejarano, Diana Sierra, Alveiro Pérez-Doria, Iván Darío Vélez

228-31
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1516
Leishmania (Leishmania) mexicana in the village of San Matias, municipality of Gomez Plata, North West of Antioquia, Colombia

Diana Sierra, Marcela Ochoa, José Ignacio Calle, Gisela García, Diana Colorado, Iván Darío Vélez

232-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1517
Leishmaniasis transmission focus in El Hobo, Carmen de Bolívar, Bolívar, Colombia)

Luis Alberto Cortés

236-41
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1518
Dog (Canis familiaris) infectivity to Lutzomyia youngi in Trujillo, Venezuela

Dalila Hernández, Elina Rojas, José Vicente Scorza, Alicia Jorquera

242-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1519
Infección por Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis en dos perros colombianos: una nota sobre infectividad para flebótomos y respuesta al tratamiento.

Bruno L. Travi, Carlos Javier Tabares, Horacio Cadena

249-53
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1520

Technical note

Quantification of canine cytokines using real time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

Omar A. Saldarriaga, Bruno L. Travi, Peter C. Melby

254-63
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v26i1.1521