1. Não foram observadas diferenças genotípicas entre os espécimes de Leishmania de humanos com leishmaniose visceral sintomática e assintomática;
2. Não foram observadas diferenças genotípicas entre os espécimes de Leishmania isoladas de humanos e cães;
3. Não foram observadas diferenças no conteúdo gênico de formas promastigotas e amastigotas de Leishmania na infecção assintomática;
4. O sequenciamento genômico dos 20 isolados de Leishmania, oriundos do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, revelou uma forte similaridade entre as cepas;
5. As amostras isoladas na década de 1990 apresentaram uma maior diversidade genotípica quando comparadas as amostras recentemente isoladas;
6. Todos os isolados de Leishmania apresentaram 36 cromossomos com ploidia variável entre os isolados;
7. Não foi encontrada relação entre as variações no número de cópias gênicas de amastina, gp63, A2 e SSG, com as formas clínicas.
8. 34,28% dos flebotomíneos coletados no Alto Oeste são L. longipalpis.
9. As principais fontes de repasto sanguíneo no Alto Oeste foram humanos, cães e galinha.
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