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- Title
SUSCEPTIBILITY OF Cebus apella MONKEY (PRIMATES: CEBIDAE)TO EXPERIMENTAL Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi-INFECTION.
- Authors
Carneiro, Liliane Almeida; Sllveira, Fernando Tobias; Campos, Marilane Batista; Do Carmo De Oliveira Brtgldo, Maria; Gomes, Claudia Maria C.; Corbett, Carlos E. P.; Laurenti, Marcia D.
- Abstract
In Amazonian Brazil, the Cebus apella monkey (Primates: Cebidae) has been associated with the enzootic cycle of Leishmania (V) shawi, a derinotropic parasite causing American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL). It has also been successfully used as animal model for studying cutaneous leishmaniasis. In this work, there has been investigated its susceptibility to experimental Leishmania (L) infantum chagasi-infection, the etiologic agent of American visceral leishmaniasis (AVL). There were used ten C. apella specimens, eight adult and two young, four males and six females, all born and raised in captivity. Two experimental infection protocols were performed: i) six monkeys were inoculated, intra-dermal via (ID), into the base of the tail with 2 × 106 promastigotes forms from the stationary phase culture medium; ii) other four monkeys were inoculated with 3 × 106 amastigotes forms from the visceral infection of infected hamsters by two different via: a) two by intravenous via (IV) and, b) other two by intra-peritoneal via (IP). The parameters of infection evaluation included: a) clinical: physical exam of abdomen, weigh and body temperature; b) parasitological: needle aspiration of the bone-marrow for searching of amastigotes (Giemsa-stained smears) and promastigotes forms (culture medium); c) immunological: Indirect fluorescence antibody test (IFAT) and, Delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH). In the six monkeys ID inoculated (promastigotes forms) all parameters of infection evaluation were negative during the 12 months period of follow-up. Among the four monkeys inoculated with amastigotes forms, two IV inoculated showed the parasite in the bone-marrow from the first toward to the sixth month p.i. and following that they cleared the infection, whereas the other two IP inoculated were totally negative. These four monkeys showed specific IgG-antibody response since the third month p.i. (IP: 1/80 and IV: 1/320 IgG) toward to the 12th month (IP: 1/160 and IV: 1/5120). The DTH-conversion occurred in only one IV inoculated monkey with a strong (30 mm) skin reaction. Considering these results, we do not encourage the use of C. apella monkey as animal model for studying the AVL.
- Subjects
CEBUS apella; LEISHMANIA; PARASITES; CUTANEOUS leishmaniasis; ANIMAL culture; BONE marrow; ANIMAL species; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; ALLERGIES
- Publication
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2011, Vol 53, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
0036-4665
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0036-46652011000100008