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Modulation of fibroblast behavior by Leishmania: a pathway to understanding disease progression in cutaneous leishmaniasis

BMC Microbiology
Leishmaniasis is a parasitic infection caused by obligatory intracellular protozoa of the Leishmania genus. Macrophages are the main cell for Leishmania parasites that play a key role in immune response against it.
Tarcisio Navegante de Queiroz Filho, Brenda Furtado Costa, Ana Paula Drummond Rodrigues   +2 more
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Attempts using cryotherapy to achieve more rapid healing in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to L. braziliensis braziliensis

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 1983
The use of cryotherapy as an adjunct to systemic antimonial therapy (Clucantime) was studied in 17 patients with a total of23 skin lesions of leishmaniasis in an area where L. braziliensis braziliensis is the species in circulation.
Elmer Alejandro Llanos Cuentas, Philip Davis Marsden, Douglas Torre, Air Colombo Barreto   +3 more
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Molecular diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis in an endemic area of Acre State in the Amazonian Region of Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
INTRODUCTION This study proposes to identify the Leishmania species found in the skin lesions of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) patients from Brasiléia municipality (Acre).
Thais de Araujo-Pereira, Daniela de Pita-Pereira, Regina Barbosa Moreira, Tainah Silva-Galdino, Márcia P. de Oliveira Duarte, Reginaldo Peçanha Brazil, Constança Britto   +6 more
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Geographic Distribution of Leishmania Species in Ecuador Based on the Cytochrome B Gene Sequence Analysis.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016
A countrywide epidemiological study was performed to elucidate the current geographic distribution of causative species of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Ecuador by using FTA card-spotted samples and smear slides as DNA sources.
Hirotomo Kato, Eduardo A Gomez, Luiggi Martini-Robles, Jenny Muzzio, Lenin Velez, Manuel Calvopiña, Manuel Calvopiña, Daniel Romero-Alvarez, Tatsuyuki Mimori, Hiroshi Uezato, Yoshihisa Hashiguchi   +10 more
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Achievement of constitutive fluorescent pLEXSY-egfp Leishmania braziliensis and its application as an alternative method for drug screening in vitro

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
BACKGROUND Gene reporter-fluorescent cells have emerged as alternative method for drug screening. OBJECTIVE Achievement of constitutive expression of fluorescent protein GFP by Leishmania braziliensis as alternative method for drug screening. METHODS
Matheus Silva e Bastos, Luciana Ângelo de Souza, Thiago Souza Onofre, Abelardo Silva Júnior, Márcia Rogéria de Almeida, Gustavo Costa Bressan, Juliana Lopes Rangel Fietto   +6 more
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Leishmaniose cutânea na Amazônia: registro do primeiro caso humano de infecção mista, determinado por duas espécies distintas de Leishmnias: Leishmania brasiliensis e Leishmania mexicana amazonensis Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Amazonia: the first record of a case of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by two different parasites: Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis and Leishmania mexicana amazonensis

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1984
Fez-se o registro, na Amazônia, do primeiro caso humano de infecção cutânea mista determinada por duas espécies distintas de Leishmania: a Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis e a Leishmania mexicana amazonensis.
F. T. Silveira, R. Lainson, J. J. Shaw, R. da S. M. Ribeiro   +3 more
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Leishmania braziliensis [PDF]

, 2020
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Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis em cães naturalmente infectados Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis in naturally infected dogs

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2003
Foram estudados oito cães provenientes do Município de Maricá (RJ), com lesões sugestivas de leishmaniose tegumentar americana por métodos parasitológicos e sorológicos. Leishmania spp foi encontrada em seis cães através do cultivo in vitro. Anticorpos específicos foram detectados em seis animais pelo ELISA e em dois pela imunofluorescência indireta ...
Maria de Fátima Madeira, Cláudia M. Antunes Uchôa, Cristianni Antunes Leal, Roger M. Macedo Silva, Rosemere Duarte, Ciléia M. Magalhães, Cathia Maria Barrientos Serra   +6 more
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Comparison of serological and parasitological methods for cutaneous leishmaniasis diagnosis in the state of Paraná, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
We evaluated the effectiveness of serological and parasitological methods for cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) diagnosis in patients from the central region of Paraná state, southern Brazil.
Regiane Szargiki, Edilene Alcântara de Castro, Ennio Luz, Wolodymir Kowalthuk, Ângela Maria Machado, Vanete Thomaz-Soccol   +5 more
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Unusual prevalence of Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis in four families [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 1986
Wong, L., Netto, E. M., Wiese, K., França, F., Cuba, C. C., Llanos-Cuentas, E. A., Jones, T.C., Johnson, W. D., Barreto, A. C., Marsden, P. D.   +9 more
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