{"id":6853,"date":"2012-02-23T19:52:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T21:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/2012\/02\/23\/o-parasita-dos-parasitas-3\/"},"modified":"2013-08-28T14:46:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T17:46:20","slug":"o-parasita-dos-parasitas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/o-parasita-dos-parasitas\/","title":{"rendered":"The parasite of parasites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the sand fly, visceral leishmaniasis can be transmitted to dogs and cats by parasites, such as the brown tick, <em>Rhipicephalus sanguineus<\/em>, and the flea, <em>Ctenocephalides felis felis<\/em>. In 2005, a team from the Federal University of Minas Gerais presented this possibility in the journal <em>Veterinary Parasitology<\/em>, a hypothesis that has now been reinforced by a team from the Adolfo Lutz Institute (<em>Parasitology Research<\/em>, August 2011). F\u00e1bio Colombo, from the group coordinated by Vera Pereira-Chioccola, examined 73 dogs caught in Mirand\u00f3polis, in S\u00e3o Paulo state, and found that 60 had leishmaniasis, 40 had fleas and almost all of them had ticks. According to a DNA analysis, the rate of infection by the <em>Leishmania<\/em> protozoa, which causes the disease, was 28% in fleas and over 50% in ticks. RNA studies indicated that there were live protozoa inside tick pupa removed from infected dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The parasite of parasites\r\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[247,260],"coauthors":[786],"class_list":["post-6853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-medicine","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}