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Interventions for American cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2020
On the American continent, cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (CL and MCL) are diseases associated with infection by several species of Leishmania parasites. Pentavalent antimonials remain the first-choice treatment. There are alternative interventions, but reviewing their effectiveness and safety is important as availability is limited. This is
Mariona, Pinart, José-Ramón, Rueda, Gustavo As, Romero, Carlos Eduardo, Pinzón-Flórez, Karime, Osorio-Arango, Ana Nilce, Silveira Maia-Elkhoury, Ludovic, Reveiz, Vanessa M, Elias, John A, Tweed   +8 more
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Kidney involvement in leishmaniasis—a review

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2014
Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease caused by protozoa of the genus Leishmania transmitted by insects of the genus Lutzomyia sp. or Phlebotomus sp.
Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Junior, Elvino José Guardão Barros, Elizabeth De Francesco Daher   +2 more
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Indoor and peridomestic transmission of American cutaneous leishmaniasis in northwestern Argentina: a retrospective case-control study. [PDF]

, 2003
A case-control study was carried out during 1990-1994 to identify risk factors associated with American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) in Santiago del Estero, Argentina.
Quigley, Maria A, Yadon, ZE, A. Quigley, MARIA A. QUIGLEY, Yadon, Zaida E, Quigley, MA, Rodrigues, LC, Davies, CR, Laura C. Rodrigues, Davies, Clive R, Zaida E. Yadon, Quigley, Maria, Clive R. Davies, Rodrigues, Laura C, Maria   +14 more
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Local increase of arginase activity in lesions of patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis in Ethiopia. [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease that is in Ethiopia mainly caused by the parasite Leishmania aethiopica. This neglected tropical disease is common in rural areas and causes serious morbidity.
Cloke, T, Abebe Tamrat, Mekonen Woinshet, Modolell, M, Thomas Cloke, Woldeyes Mihretu, Seich Al Basatena, Nafisa-Katrin, Abebe, T., Corware, Karina, Bilcha, K, Seich al Basatena, N., Munder, M, Lionel Fry, Tacchini-Cottier, F, Ingrid Müller, Kropf, P, Müller, Ingrid, Markus Munder, Bilcha, K., Fry Lionel, Seich Al Basatena, N.K., Cloke Thomas, Hailu, A., Cloke, Thomas, Mueller, I, Mihretu Woldeyes, Pascale Kropf, Müller Ingrid, Mekonen, Woinshet, Karina Corware, Modolell, Manuel, al Basatena, N-KS, Müller, I., Woldeyes, M, Woinshet Mekonen, Corware, K, Asrat Hailu, Kassahun Bilcha, Corware Karina, Abebe, T, Woldeyes, Mihretu, Munder, Markus, Manuel Modolell, Mekonen, W., Hailu, A, Modolell Manuel, Fry, Lionel, Kropf Pascale, Abebe, Tamrat, Fry, L., Fry, L, Corware, K., Cloke, T., Modolell, M., Munder, M., Tacchini-Cottier, Fabienne, Fabienne Tacchini-Cottier, Kropf, P., Kropf, Pascale, Bilcha, Kassahun, Tacchini-Cottier, F., Woldeyes, M., Munder Markus, Nafisa-Katrin Seich Al Basatena, Mekonen, W, Tacchini-Cottier Fabienne, Hailu Asrat, Hailu, Asrat, Tamrat Abebe, Bilcha Kassahun, Seich al Basatena Nafisa-Katrin   +70 more
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Bayesian geostatistical modeling of leishmaniasis incidence in Brazil [PDF]

, 2013
Leishmaniasis is endemic in 98 countries with an estimated 350 million people at risk and approximately 2 million cases annually. Brazil is one of the most severely affected countries.; We applied Bayesian geostatistical negative binomial models to ...
Dimitrios-Alexios Karagiannis-Voules (411801), Luiz H. Guimarães (5650114), Luiz H Guimarães, Utzinger, Jürg, Jürg Utzinger (39609), Scholte, Ronaldo G. C., Guimarães, Luiz H., Ronaldo G C Scholte, Ronaldo G. C. Scholte (411802), Karagiannis-Voules, Dimitrios-Alexios, Penelope Vounatsou, Penelope Vounatsou (49253), Dimitrios-Alexios Karagiannis-Voules, Vounatsou, Penelope, Jürg Utzinger   +14 more
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Predicting geographic variation in cutaneous leishmaniasis, Colombia. [PDF]

, 2004
Approximately 6,000 cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis are reported annually in Colombia, a greater than twofold increase since the 1980s. Such reports certainly underestimate true incidence, and their geographic distribution is likely biased by local ...
King, Raymond J, Diarmid H. Campbell-Lendrum, Clive R. Davies, Raymond J. King, Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid H, Davies, Clive R   +5 more
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Leishmaniasis in the United States: Emerging Issues in a Region of Low Endemicity

Microorganisms, 2021
Leishmaniasis, a chronic and persistent intracellular protozoal infection caused by many different species within the genus Leishmania, is an unfamiliar disease to most North American providers.
John M. Curtin, Naomi E. Aronson
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Risk factors for anthroponotic cutaneous Leishmaniasis at the household level in Kabul, Afghanistan. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Kabul, Afghanistan, is the largest focus of anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) in the world. ACL is a protozoan disease transmitted to humans by the bite of phlebotomine sand flies.
Reithinger, Richard, Mohsen Mohammad, Leslie, Toby, Reithinger Richard, Mohsen, Mohammad, Richard Reithinger, Leslie Toby, Toby Leslie, Mohammad Mohsen   +8 more
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Leishmaniasis: new approaches to disease control. [PDF]

, 2003
The leishmaniases afflict the world's poorest populations. Among the two million new cases each year in the 88 countries where the disease is endemic (fig 1), it is estimated that 80% earn less than $2 a day.
Croft, Simon L, Sundar, Shyam, Davies, Clive R., Croft, Simon L., Kaye, Paul, Davies, Clive R   +5 more
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Clinical and immunopathological spectrum of American cutaneous leishmaniasis with special reference to the disease in Amazonian Brazil: a review

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2004
The wide variety of Leishmania species responsible for human American cutaneous leishmaniasis combined with the immune mechanisms of the host results in a large spectrum of clinical, histopathological, and immunopathological manifestations. At the middle
Fernando T Silveira, Ralph Lainson, Carlos EP Corbett   +2 more
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