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Leishmaniasis in refugee and local Pakistani populations. [PDF]

, 2004
The epidemiology of anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis was investigated in northwest Pakistan. Results suggested similar patterns of endemicity in both Afghan refugee and Pakistani populations and highlighted risk factors and household clustering of ...
Said Agha, Mark Rowland, Rowland, Mark, Brooker, Simon, Jan Kolaczinski, Adil, Khaksar, Mohammed, Nasir, Simon Brooker, Reithinger, Richard, Kolaczinski, Jan, Nasir Mohammed, Agha, Said, Khaksar Adil, Richard Reithinger, Ali, Iftikhar, Iftikhar Ali   +15 more
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Anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis, Kabul, Afghanistan. [PDF]

, 2003
A prevalence survey in Kabul City showed that 2.7% and 21.9% of persons have active leishmaniasis lesions or scars, respectively. Incidence of disease was estimated to be 2.9% (29 cases/1,000 persons per year; 95% confidence interval 0.018 to 0.031 ...
Reithinger, Richard, Panna Erasmus, Erasmus, Panna, Coleman, Paul G, Aadil, Khoksar, Paul G. Coleman, Sidiqi, Majeed, Mohsen, Mohammad, Richard Reithinger, Majeed Sidiqi, Mohammad Mohsen, Khoksar Aadil   +11 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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Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

The Moldovan Medical Journal, 2018
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, Pantea, Victor, Cebotarescu, Valentin, Cojuhari, Lilia, Paveliuc, Petru, Musteata, Tatiana, Panasiuc, Alexandru, Lungu, Victoria, Simonov, Ludmila   +8 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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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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A rare form of leishmaniasis, identified in the Russian Federation [PDF]

Vestnik Dermatologii i Venerologii, 2023
Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis is a rare form of cutaneous leishmaniasis characterized by an inadequate immune response of the host cells to parasitic invasion (weak T-helper (Th)1 response or Th2 response with the production of interleukin IL-4 and IL ...
Olga G. Artamonova, Ekaterina S. Monchakovskaya, Alexey A. Kubanov, Margarita R. Rakhmatulina, Oleg E. Kuznetsov, Darya A. Synkova, Dmitry A. Verbenko   +6 more
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Cutaneous Bronchogenic Cyst in a 3-Year-Old Girl: A Case Report

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2020
مقدمه: کیست‌های برونکوژنیک در نتیجه‌ی رشد ایزوله‌ی درخت برونشیال و به طور معمول در مدیاستین ایجاد می‌شوند، اما ممکن است به طور نادر به صورت ساب‌کوتانه و یا پوستی تظاهر کنند. این مطالعه، به گزارش یک مورد از این بیماری در یک دختر 3 ساله می‌پردازد.
Zahra Tafazzoli, Masoumeh Hosseininezhad, Samaneh Boroumand, Pouran Layegh, Sadegh Vahabi-Amlashi, Somayeh Ghanizadeh   +5 more
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Therapy of cutaneous leishmaniasis

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2003
There have been many treatment modalities used for the therapy of cutaneous leishmaniasis. Although treatment need not be given for cosmetically insignificant lesions, which are often self-limited, therapy is usually indicated for larger, cosmetically significant and disfiguring lesions, and lesions which progress.
Lee, Samuel A., Hasbun, Rodrigo
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Age-related alteration of arginase activity impacts on severity of leishmaniasis. [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: The leishmaniases are a group of vector-borne parasitic diseases that represent a major international public health problem; they belong to the most neglected tropical diseases and have one of the highest rates of morbidity and mortality. The
Asrat Hailu, Choi, B., Abebe, T, Munder, Markus, Choi, B-S, Abebe Tamrat, Modolell, M, Choi Beak-San, Manuel Modolell, Hailu, A, Abebe, T., Fuentes, J., Modolell Manuel, Kropf Pascale, Abebe, Tamrat, Munder, M, Ingrid Müller, Kropf, P, Müller, Ingrid, Markus Munder, Modolell, M., Munder, M., Kropf, P., Kropf, Pascale, Beak-San Choi, Hailu, A., Fuentes, Jose M, Munder Markus, Fuentes Jose M., Pascale Kropf, Muller, I, Fuentes, JM, Jose M. Fuentes, Müller Ingrid, Jose M Fuentes, Hailu Asrat, Choi, Beak-San, Hailu, Asrat, Modolell, Manuel, Müller, I., Tamrat Abebe   +40 more
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