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In vitro drug susceptibility of Leishmania donovani from visceral leishmaniasis patients with and without HIV coinfection in Northwestern Ethiopia [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Leishmania and HIV coinfection is a major public health problem in more than 35 countries worldwide. Leishmania infection is frequently reactivated in VL and HIV coinfected patients.
Sultan Tufa, Markos Tadele, Helina Fikre, Roman Melkamu, Arega Yeshanew, Saba Atnafu, Zemenay Mulugeta, Dagaga Kenea, Birtukan Kebede, Asrat Hailu   +9 more
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Forecasting temporal dynamics of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Northeast Brazil. [PDF]

, 2014
IntroductionCutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a vector-borne disease of increasing importance in northeastern Brazil. It is known that sandflies, which spread the causative parasites, have weather-dependent population dynamics.
Carvalho, Edgar M, Glesby, Marshall J, Jirmanus, Lara, Júnior, Nivison Nery, Ko, Albert I, Lewnard, Joseph A, Machado, Paulo R, Schriefer, Albert, Weinberger, Daniel M   +8 more
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Spiny Hyperkeratosis-Like Follicular Mycosis Fungoides: A Case Report [PDF]

Middle East Journal of Cancer, 2023
Folliculotropic mycosis fungoides (FMF) is a rare variant of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma which is categorized as a separate entity. In histopathology, malignant lymphocytes selectively surround and infiltrate hair follicles.
Shatila Torabi, Sara Fakhraei, Naser Tayebi Meibodi, Farnaz Ahmadpour   +3 more
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Evaluation of clinical risk factors for systemic antimony treatment failure in patients with acute cutaneous leishmaniasis referred to dermatology clinics of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran [PDF]

Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2023
Background: Systemic or topical form of pentavalent antimony compounds such as Meglumine Antimoniate (MA) are used as Standard treatment for cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL).
Yalda Nahidi, Vahid Mashayekhi Goyonlo, Malihe Dadgarmoghaddam, Maesumeh Hosseininejad, Tahmineh Malakifard, Yasaman Rastgar   +5 more
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Interspecies and Intrastrain Interplay among Leishmania spp. Parasites

Microorganisms, 2022
Leishmania parasites present astonishing adaptative abilities that represent a matter of life or death within disparate environments during the heteroxenous parasite life cycle.
Bruna Dias das Chagas, Thaís Martins Pereira, Lilian Motta Cantanhêde, Gabriela Pereira da Silva, Mariana Côrtes Boité, Luiza de Oliveira Ramos Pereira, Elisa Cupolillo   +6 more
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Leishmania (Viannia) naiffi Lainson & Shaw 1989

Parasites & Vectors, 2023
Just over 30 years ago, a new species of Leishmania of the subgenus Leishmania (Viannia) was described infecting the armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus; then, a report of human infection followed.
Lilian Motta Cantanhêde, Elisa Cupolillo   +1 more
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Determinants of Unresponsiveness to Treatment in Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: A Focus on Anthroponotic Form Due to Leishmania tropica

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a curable disease; however, due to various risk factors, unresponsiveness to CL treatments is inevitable. The treatment of CL has been firmly correlated with multiple determinants, such as demographical, clinical, and ...
Mehdi Bamorovat, Iraj Sharifi, Razieh Tavakoli Oliaee, Abdollah Jafarzadeh, Ahmad Khosravi   +4 more
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Exploring Host-Specificity: Untangling the Relationship between Leishmania (Viannia) Species and Its Endosymbiont Leishmania RNA Virus 1

Microorganisms, 2023
A relevant aspect in the epidemiology of Tegumentary Leishmaniasis (TL) are the Leishmania parasites carrying a viral endosymbiont, Leishmania RNA Virus 1 (LRV1), a dsRNA virus.
Mayara Cristhine de Oliveira Santana, Khaled Chourabi, Lilian Motta Cantanhêde, Elisa Cupolillo   +3 more
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Unusual clinical presentation of cutaneous leishmaniasis in a patient with corticosteroid‐induced immunosuppression

Clinical Case Reports, 2021
Clinicians should always consider rare, atypical, and opportunistic infections in patients undergoing long‐term systemic corticosteroid therapy. Diagnosis needs further evaluations and special consideration.
Maryam Mahdavi, Reihaneh Aryan, Yalda Nahidi, Mehrdad Teimoorian, Vahid Mashayekhi   +4 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, Davies, Clive R, Kaye, Paul, Sundar, Shyam   +3 more
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