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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, Davies, Clive R, Kaye, Paul, Sundar, Shyam   +3 more
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Antigenic differences among Leishmania amazonensis isolates and their relationship with distinct clinical forms of the disease

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1992
Immunoblot analysis was used to investigate antigenic differences among clinical isolates of Leishmania amazonensis and their role in the etiology of the diseases. Western blots of promastigote homogenates were analyzed with either monoclonal antibodies (
Leonor L. Leon, Gerzia M. C. Machado, Aldina Barral, Luiz E. de Carvalho-Paes, Gabriel Grimaldi Júnior   +4 more
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Cell-to-cell transfer of Leishmania amazonensis amastigotes is mediated by immunomodulatory LAMP-rich parasitophorous extrusions [PDF]

, 2014
The last step of Leishmania intracellular life cycle is the egress of amastigotes from the host cell and their uptake by adjacent cells. Using multidimensional live imaging of long-term-infected macrophage cultures we observed that Leishmania amazonensis
Goto, Hiro, Mortara, Renato Arruda, Ramos-Sanchez, Eduardo M., Real, Fernando, Reis, Luiza Campos, Tavares Veras, Patricia Sampaio, Veras Florentino, Pilar Tavares   +6 more
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Efficacy of Paromomycin-Chloroquine Combination Therapy in Experimental Cutaneous Leishmaniasis. [PDF]

, 2017
The 4-aminoquinoline chloroquine (CQ) is clinically used in combination with doxycycline to cure chronic Q fever, as it enhances the activity of the antibiotic against the causative bacterium Coxiella burnetii residing within macrophage phagolysosomes ...
Croft, Simon L, Murdan, Sudaxshina, Van Bocxlaer, Katrien, Wijnant, Gert-Jan, Yardley, Vanessa   +4 more
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Tocopherol biosynthesis in Leishmania (L.) amazonensis promastigotes

FEBS Open Bio, 2019
Leishmaniasis is a neglected disease caused by a trypanosomatid protozoan of the genus Leishmania. Most drugs used to treat leishmaniasis are highly toxic, and the emergence of drug‐resistant strains has been observed.
José Mário F. Balanco, Rodrigo A.C. Sussmann, Ignasi B. Verdaguer, Heloisa B. Gabriel, Emilia A. Kimura, Alejandro M. Katzin   +5 more
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Secretory pathway of trypanosomatid parasites [PDF]

, 2002
The Trypanosomatidae comprise a large group of parasitic protozoa, some of which cause important diseases in humans. These include Tryanosoma brucei (the causative agent of African sleeping sickness and nagana in cattle), Trypanosoma cruzi (the causative
McConville, Malcolm J., Mullin, Kylie A., Ilgoutz, Steven C., Teasdale, Rohan D.   +3 more
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Leishmania isoenzyme polymorphisms in Ecuador: Relationships with geographic distribution and clinical presentation

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2006
Background Determinants of the clinical presentation of the leishmaniases are poorly understood but Leishmania species and strain differences are important.
Mimori Tatsuyuki, Barroso Paola A, Korenaga Masataka, Gomez Eduardo A, Kato Hirotomo, Uezato Hiroshi, Marco Jorge D, Armijos Rodrigo X, Calvopina Manuel, Cooper Philip J, Nonaka Shigeo, Hashiguchi Yoshihisa   +11 more
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Evaluación de la respuesta de isotipos de inmunoglobulina especifica a Leishmania en leishmaniasis tegumentaria Americana Evaluation of specific immunoglobin isotype response to Leishmania in American tegumentary leishmaniasis

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1989
Con el fin de determinar las clases de anticuerpo producido contra el parásito y la cinética de los mismos en relación a la evolución de la infección, se estudiaron los sueros de 133 pacientes infectados con Leishmania del complejo braziliensis.
Maricel Labrada, Kristen Weigle, Liliana Valderrama, Nancy G. Saravia   +3 more
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Holochilus brasiliensis nanus Thomas, 1897: sugestão de modelo experimental para filariose, leishmaniose e esquistossomose Holochilus brasiliensis nanus Thomas, 1897: as an experimental model for filariasis, leishmaniasis and schistosomiasis

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1984
Roedores silvestres, classificados como Holochilus brasiliensis nanus Thomas,1897, foram capturados na cidade de São Bento, pertencente à Região da Baixada, do Estado do Maranhão, Brasil, naturalmente infectados com formas adultas de filaria, na cavidade
Othon de Carvalho Bastos, Moysés Sadigursky, Maria do Desterro Soares Brandão do Nascimento, Reginaldo Peçanha Brazil, João Carvalho de Holanda   +4 more
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Detecção de DNA de Leishmania spp. no sangue e em esperma de indivíduos residentes na região Amazônica [PDF]

, 2014
Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Medicina, Pós-Graduação em Ciências Médicas, Laboratório Multidisciplinar de Pesquisa em Doença de Chagas, 2014A leishmaniose é uma zoonose transmitida por flebotomíneos e causada por várias ...
Vital, Tamires Emanuele
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