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Host-Directed Therapies for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
Cutaneous leishmaniasis exhibits a wide spectrum of clinical presentations from self-resolving infections to severe chronic disease. Anti-parasitic drugs are often ineffective in the most severe forms of the disease, and in some cases the magnitude of ...
F. Novais, C. Amorim, P. Scott
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Clinicians should always consider rare, atypical, and opportunistic infections in patients undergoing long‐term systemic corticosteroid therapy. Diagnosis needs further evaluations and special consideration.
Maryam Mahdavi +4 more
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Coinfection of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis and Streptococcus pneumoniae in multiple cutaneous lesions [PDF]
Key learning points Cutaneous leishmaniasis is the most common clinical disease caused by all the Leishmania species that are pathogenic to humans. Other bacterial coinfections of Leishmania lesions have been described, but this is the first report of ...
Chiapello, Laura Silvina +6 more
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A Case Report of a Successful Allergen Immunotherapy with Candida Albicans in Patient with Sever Atopic Dermatitis Sensitive to Candida Albicans [PDF]
Introduction: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is an inflammatory, chronic, relapsing, itchy skin disease with an immunologic basis. This disease is associated with itchy skin lesions (pruritus), dry skin (xerosis) and plaques of eczema. The role of aeroallergens,
Farahzad Jabbari Azad +3 more
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Background: Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by parasites of the Leishmania type. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a neglected worldwide, zoonotic, vector-borne, tropical disease. The clinical spectrum of leishmaniasis ranges from a self-resolving cutaneous ulcer to a mutilating mucocutaneous disease and even to a lethal systemic illness.
Placinta, Gheorghe +8 more
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Recurrent cutaneous leishmaniasis [PDF]
We present a case of an 18-year-old male patient who, after two years of inappropriate treatment for cutaneous leishmaniasis, began to show nodules arising at the edges of the former healing scar. He was immune competent and denied any trauma. The diagnosis of recurrent cutaneous leishmaniasis was made following positive culture of aspirate samples ...
Gomes, Ciro Martins +4 more
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The evaluation of herbal medicine efficacy on cutaneous Leishmaniasis [PDF]
Leishmaniasis including Cutaneous, mocucutaneous and Visceral forms of clinical syndromes is one of the important health care problem in the world specially in developing countries.
Zohre Seidi
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Systemic Treatments of Leishmaniasis: A Narrative Review [PDF]
Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a prevalent parasitic infection in humans. According to the reports published in several localities across the world, leishmaniasis is an endemic disease in certain regions in Iran.
Ahmad Reza Taheri +2 more
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Leishmania tropica and Leishmania major are both the main cause of anthroponotic (ACL) and zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL), respectively, in the Old World.
M. A. Ghatee, W. Taylor, M. Karamian
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Native rodent species are unlikely sources of infection for Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis along the Transoceanic Highway in Madre de Dios, Peru. [PDF]
An estimated 2.3 million disability-adjusted life years are lost globally from leishmaniasis. In Peru's Amazon region, the department of Madre de Dios (MDD) rises above the rest of the country in terms of the annual incidence rates of human leishmaniasis.
Conrad, Patricia A +7 more
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