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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 +14 more
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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 +8 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) +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 +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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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 +5 more
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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 +8 more
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Antibodies to laminin in American cutaneous leishmaniasis [PDF]
Infection and Immunity, 1984 We found that serum samples from patients with different clinical forms of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) contained immunoglobulin G and immunoglobulin M antibodies which reacted with laminin but not with various other purified connective tissue components, such as collagen types I, III, IV, and V and fibronectin.
J L, Avila, M, Rojas, M, Rieber
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The transmission dynamics of canine American cutaneous leishmaniasis in Huánuco, Peru. [PDF]
, 2003 The epidemiology of canine American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) due to Leishmania (Viannia) spp. was investigated in Huánuco, Peru to 1) describe the natural course of canine L.
Reithinger, Richard +2 more
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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 +2 more
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