Leishmaniose Visceral Canina No Estado Do Piauí: Uma Revisão Sistemática

Abstract

Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical infectious disease of high incidence in the Americas and highlighted in Brazil. It affects individuals below the poverty line worldwide, and is thus associated with malnutrition, population displacement, precarious housing, weak immune systems and lack of financial resources. There is in Brazil the National Program to Control and Combat Leishmaniasis and the dog is one of the targets of this intervention. In addition, in the Brazilian Northeast and in particular the State of Piauí, zoonosis is remarkable. Thus, the general objective of our work is to evaluate scientific information regarding the reality of Canine Leishmaniasis in the State of Piauí. The methodology followed the Prisma Model for systematic reviews; a survey of studies on Canine Leishmaniasis in the state of Piauí was carried out, based on indexed descriptors, in Portuguese and English, in the last 10 years (2013 to 2023). Eight studies that deal with information from the state of Piauí were selected. The studies addressed, in short, the control of the infectious cycle, based on satellite image analysis, predictive model and survey of information on local controls. Therefore, it is concluded that there are few indexed studies on the subject, justifying the focus on the control bases still being the sacrifice of the dog, reinforcing how much the disease is neglected and thus making new studies necessary.