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Leishmaniasis in Dhaka Medical College-experience of three years

Heliyon, 2020
The People's Republic of Bangladesh has been working to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis or Kala-azar cases since there was a memorandum of understanding signed between neighboring countries in 2005.
Mohammad Robed Amin, Jubayer Fardin, Nawsabah Noor, Pranab Kumar Mallik, Tamanna Tabassum, Md. Abdullah Saeed Khan, Mohammad Jahid Hasan   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

KALA-AZAR [PDF]

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1914
The economic significance and pathologic and clinical course of kala-azar have been studied and described by many observers in Africa, India and the Mediterranean littoral. Its recognition in China, however, is of comparatively recent date, and data are yet insufficient to estimate its economic significance there.
openaire   +1 more source

Epidemiological study of the KALA-AZAR cases in Iraq for the years

The Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 2004
study of KALA-AZAR cases in Iraq was conducted during July 2004 , to study the epidemiological distribution of KALA-AZAR cases in Iraq for the years (1999-2003) comparing it with the cases of the previous years (1994-1998).
Baqir Kareem Abid
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of Visceral Leishmaniasis Associated with the Behaviors of the People in Rural Areas

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2005
A cross sectional study was conducted by taking a random sample of 204 households of 5 VDCs in Sunsari district, Nepal with the objective to verify the prevalence of visceral leishmaniasis with behaviors of the people in endemic rural areas.
Harishchandra Shah
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Recurrent kala-azar: report of two cured cases after total splenectomy

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
In Latin America, the causative agent of kala-azar is the intracellular protozoan Leishmania infantum. Most cases in South America are reported in Brazil. Worldwide, it mainly affects Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, South Sudan and Sudan.
Luis Gustavo Cavalcante Reinaldo, Raimundo José Cunha Araújo Júnior, Thiago Melo Diniz, Rafael de Deus Moura, Dorcas Lamounier Costa, Kelsen Dantas Eulálio, Carlos Henrique Nery Costa   +6 more
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Upendranath Brahmachari: Revisiting a Forgotten Bengali Scientist behind Cure of Kala-azar [PDF]

Bengal Physician Journal
Kala-azar, or visceral leishmaniasis, was once a widespread problem in the Bengal Presidency of British India, encompassing present-day Indian states such as Bengal, Bihar, Assam, and Odisha.
Rupak Chatterjee, Atanu Chandra, Sugata Dasgupta   +2 more
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Seasonal relationship between normalized difference vegetation index and abundance of the Phlebotomus kala-azar vector in an endemic focus in Bihar, India

Geospatial Health, 2012
Remote sensing was applied for the collection of spatio-temporal data to increase our understanding of the potential distribution of the kala-azar vector Phlebotomus argentipes in endemic areas of the Vaishali district of Bihar, India.
Gouri S. Bhunia, Shreekant Kesari, Nandini Chatterjee, Rakesh Mandal, Vijay Kumar, Pradeep Das   +5 more
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Changing clinico-epidemiology of post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) in India: Results of a survey in four endemic states

Journal of Vector Borne Diseases, 2020
Background & objectives: Detection and treatment of post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) cases is considered important for kala-azar elimination. The objective of our study was to find out the proportion of different forms of lesions, interruption ...
Suman Saurabh, Pritam Roy, Dhruv K Pandey, Dipanjan Ray, Shourabh Tarak, Rajesh Pandey, Dileep Kumar, Sarosh Jamil, Anand Paulraj, Amarendra Kumar, Siddhartha Dutta   +10 more
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Para-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis in a patient in Brazil: a case report

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Visceral leishmaniasis is common in Brazil and is caused by Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum/chagasi. Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis frequently follows visceral leishmaniasis caused by L.
José Angelo Lauletta Lindoso, Carlos Henrique Valente Moreira, Beatriz Julieta Celeste, Luiza Keiko Matsuka Oyafuso, Pedro Moreira Folegatti, Eduard Evert Zijlstra   +5 more
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Leishmania donovani's protein tyrosine phosphatases interact with DUF21 and respond to environmental magnesium

The FEBS Journal, EarlyView.
The Leishmania phosphatase PTP1, and possibly the genetically similar PTP2, interacts with the Leishmania transmembrane protein DUF21. When both ptp1 and ptp2 are knocked out of Leishmania (LdΔPTP1/2), the parasite can no longer survive without magnesium in vitro and has reduced viability in the host macrophage. Conversely, in duf21 knockout (LdΔDUF21),
Kayla Paulini, Hira Khursheed, Wen Wei Zhang, Isabelle Aubry, Greg Matlashewski, Michel L. Tremblay, Patrick Lypaczewski   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source