AVALIAÇÃO DA ATIVIDADE LEISHMANICIDA DE ESPÉCIES VEGETAIS

Abstract

The Leishmaniose, infectum-parasitic illness caused by protozoans of the Leishmania sort, is still one of the biggest problems of public health affecting about 12 millions of people in 88 countries, with the 1-2 register million new cases annually. Of all the cases of LT, 90% occur in Brazil, Peru, Afghanistan, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Syria e Anger. In Brazil, leishmaniose is one antropozoonose emergent had mainly to occured changes in the chain epidemiologist, including alterations in the reservoirs, vectors and hosts, in result of the social, economic and cultural conditions of the population. The Leishmaniose American Tegumentar (LTA) has been pointed in practically all the Brazilian states with gradual increase of cases, registering in recent years in the regions North, Northeast, Center-West and South.Isolated natural composites of plants had had and continue having a great one impact in supervened and the treatment of some diseases human beings. Moreover, the plants they are important substance sources, many of which if they constitute in raw materials or archetypes for synthesis of new remedies.