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The management of American cutaneous leishmaniasis

Journal of Dermatological Treatment, 1992
American cutaneous leishmaniasis is a major world health problem which is encountered more frequently in the Western world. The clinical features, diagnosis and treatment are described. Sodium stibogluconate is the mainstay of therapy, and should be administered in a dose of 20 mg/kg per day for 28 days.
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Sporotrichoid leishmaniasis: a cross-sectional clinical, epidemiological and laboratory study in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Background Atypical presentations of cutaneous leishmaniasis include sporotrichoid leishmaniasis (SL), which is clinically described as a primary ulcer combined with lymphangitis and nodules and/or ulcerated lesions along its pathway.
Livia Martins Veloso de Carvalho, Maria Inês Fernandes Pimentel, Fátima Conceição-Silva, Érica de Camargo Ferreira e Vasconcellos, Cláudia Maria Valete-Rosalino, Marcelo Rosandiski Lyra, Mariza de Matos Salgueiro, Maurício Naoto Saheki, Maria de Fátima Madeira, Eliame Mouta-Confort, Liliane de Fátima Antonio, Aline Fagundes da Silva, Leonardo Pereira Quintella, Sandro Javier Bedoya-Pacheco, Armando de Oliveira Schubach   +14 more
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The case of diagnosis of imported cutaneous leishmaniasis in Zaporozhye

Zaporožskij Medicinskij Žurnal, 2014
Aim. Article presents the current data on the clinical and epidemiological issue of leishmaniasis. Methods and results. Leishmaniasis is endemic disease in 88 countries, mainly in tropical and subtropical climates.
V. G. Savelyev, O. M Firulina, E. V. Ryabokon, O. V. Zarudna, T. Yu. Dobryak, O. I. Gostisheva, E. A. Furyk, D. A. Zadiraka   +7 more
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Prevalence of Leishmania spp. infection in domestic dogs in Chapare, Bolivia.

, 2011
Data on Leishmania spp. infection in dogs in Bolivia is scarce. Dogs from an area where 90% of human cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) cases are due to Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis were screened for Leishmania infection using established enzyme-linked ...
Reithinger, Richard, Mary Cruz Torrico, Parrado, Rudy, Garcia, Ana Lineth, Delgado, Raúl, Richard Reithinger, Torrico, Mary Cruz, Ana Lineth Garcia, Rojas, Ernesto, Rudy Parrado, Ernesto Rojas, Raúl Delgado   +11 more
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Biphenylquinuclidines as inhibitors of squalene synthase and growth of parasitic protozoa.

, 2005
In this paper we describe the preparation of some biphenylquinuclidine derivatives and their evaluation as inhibitors of squalene synthase in order to explore their potential in the treatment of the parasitic diseases leishmaniasis and Chagas disease ...
Croft, Simon L, Cammerer, Simon, Gilbert, Ian H, Orenes Lorente, Silvia, Ruiz Perez, Luis M, Urbina, Julio, Gonzalez Pacanowska, Dolores, Jiménez, Carmen, Pacanowska, Dolores Gonzalez, de Luca-Fradley, Kate, Gómez, Rosario, Perez, Luis M. Ruiz, Gilbert, Ian H., Lorente, Silvia Orenes, Yardley, Vanessa, Croft, Simon L.   +15 more
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Infection Without Borders

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 650-651, April 2026.
Jessie T. Lu, Karen Cheung, Deshan F. Sebaratnam   +2 more
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High and low doses of antimony (Sb v) in American cutaneous leishmaniasis: a five years follow-up study of 15 patients

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1996
Seventeen patients proceeding from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil presenting with the cutaneous ulcerative form of American leishmaniasis were treated with one ampoule of pentavalent antimony daily for 30 days.
MP Oliveira-Neto, A Schubach, ML Araujo, C Pirmez   +3 more
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis and pregnancy

, 2018
We studied a 19-year-old woman, with a 4-month pregnancy who presented with four cutaneous leg ulcers of three months of evolution diagnosed by biopsy as cutaneous leishmaniasis. Direct smear and the leishmanin skin test were negative.
Gerzaín Rodríguez, Rodríguez, Gerzaín, Ángel Jaimes, Jaimes, Ángel   +3 more
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Conflict and kala-azar: determinants of adverse outcomes of kala-azar among patients in southern Sudan.

, 2004
We analyzed data obtained from 3365 patients with kala-azar (KA) or post-KA dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) treated by Medecins Sans Frontieres-Holland in south Sudan from October 1998-May 2002. Patients were malnourished (median body mass index [BMI], 15.5;
Keus, Kees, Melaku, Y, Davies, Clive, Melaku, Yosef, Kipngetich, Sammy, Keus, K, Davidson, R, Kipngetich, S, Ritmeijer, Koert, Collin, Simon, Davidson, Robert, Collin, S, Ritmeijer, K, Davies, C   +13 more
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Frequency and diversity of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Sinop, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
INTRODUCTION: Understanding the diversity of sand flies is important for the epidemiology and control of leishmaniasis. This study aimed to understand the frequency, diversity, and seasonality of medically important sand flies in the municipality of ...
Sirlei Franck Thies, Roberta Vieira de Morais Bronzoni, Mariano Martinez Espinosa, Cladson de Oliveira Souza, Ana Lucia Maria Ribeiro, Emerson Soares dos Santos, Edelberto Santos Dias, Amílcar Sabino Damazo   +7 more
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