Complex ecological interactions across a focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Eastern Colombia: novel description of Leishmania species, hosts and phlebotomine fauna [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 This study aimed to analyse the patterns of diversity, blood sources and Leishmania species of phlebotomines in a focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Arboledas, Eastern Colombia.
Claudia M. Sandoval-Ramírez +8 more
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Estimating the concentration of gold nanoparticles incorporated on Natural Rubber membranes using Multi-Level Starlet Optimal Segmentation [PDF]
J Nanopart Res (2014) 16: 2809, 2016 This study consolidates Multi-Level Starlet Segmentation (MLSS) and Multi-Level Starlet Optimal Segmentation (MLSOS), techniques for photomicrograph segmentation that use starlet wavelet detail levels to separate areas of interest in an input image.
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Optimized Mouse BMDC Isolation and Culture under Endotoxin-Free Conditions
Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ’Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Īlām, 2021 Introduction: Dendritic cells are very important in basic studies and vaccine research, but isolation and culture of these cells face challenges due to their small number in tissues.
Atefeh Sadeghi Shermeh +4 more
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Visualization of Leishmania tropica Infection in BALB/c Mice by Bioluminescence Imaging
Iranian Biomedical Journal, 2020 Background: Leishmania tropica is the cause of more than one form of leishmaniasis and lacks a known reservoir animal. This study compares the potential infectivity of recombinant and wild-type L. tropica in BALB/c mice.
Mahdieh Eskandar +6 more
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Boundary behaviours of Leishmania mexicana: a hydrodynamic simulation study [PDF]
, 2018 It is well established that the parasites of the genus Leishmania exhibit complex surface interactions with the sandfly vector midgut epithelium, but no prior study has considered the details of their hydrodynamics. Here, the boundary behaviours of motile Leishmania mexicana promastigotes are explored in a computational study using the boundary element
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Compressed AFM-IR hyperspectral nanoimaging of single Leishmania parasites [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Infrared hyperspectral imaging is a powerful approach in the field of materials and life sciences. However, the extension to modern sub-diffraction nanoimaging still remains a highly inefficient technique, as it acquires data via inherent sequential schemes.
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Leishmania naiffi and Leishmania guyanensis reference genomes highlight genome structure and gene evolution in the Viannia subgenus [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 The unicellular protozoan parasite Leishmania causes the neglected tropical disease leishmaniasis, affecting 12 million people in 98 countries. In South America, where the Viannia subgenus predominates, so far only L. (Viannia) braziliensis and L.
Simone Coughlan +6 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2018 Leishmaniasis is a health-threatening vector-borne disease in almost 90 different countries. While a prophylactic human vaccine is not yet available, the fact that recovery from leishmaniasis establishes lifelong immunity against secondary infection ...
Negar Seyed +2 more
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Current status of antihistamines repurposing for infectious diseases [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Objectives. This review gathers information on the potential role of antihistamines as anti-infective agents and identifies gaps in research that have impaired its applicability in human health. Methods. The literature search encompassed MEDLINE, PubMed and Google Scholar from 1990 to 2022. Results.
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Limited Cutaneous Leishmaniasis as Ulcerated Verrucous Plaque on Leg, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023 We report a 34-year-old man who had a nonhealing, verrucous plaque with central ulceration on the lower leg. This case-patient is a rare example of endemic limited cutaneous leishmaniasis in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Caitlyn B. Dagenet +5 more
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