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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060 EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 94, No. 4, 1999, pp. 505-508
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Bioline Code: oc99093
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 94, No. 4, 1999, pp. 505-508
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Sensitivity of a Vacuum Aspiratory Culture Technique for Diagnosis of Localized Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in an Endemic Area of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis Transmission
Gustavo Adolfo Sierra Romero; Raimunda Nonata Ribeiro Sampaio; Vanize de Oliveira Macêdo & Philip Davis Marsden
Abstract
Sixty eight patients with localized cutaneous leishmaniasis from an area with Leishmania (Viannia)
braziliensis transmission had cultures performed with a modified Marzochis vacuum aspiratory puncture technique to establish sensitivity and contamination rate with this new method. Overall sensitivity of three aspirates was 47.1%; (CI95% 39.4; 59.4) significantly greater than the sensitivity of a single one aspirate. Fungal contamination was observed in 6/204 (2.9%) inoculated culture tubes. We recommend that this useful technique should be adopted as routine for primary isolation of L.
(V.) braziliensis from localized cutaneous ulcers.
Keywords
Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis - culture sensitivity - fungal contamination - vacuum aspiratory technique
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