Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2014 Leishmaniasis is a tropical infection caused by the protozoan, belonging to the group of Leishmania which causes Old World and New World disease. These are typically divided into cutaneous, mucocutaneous, visceral, viscerotropic, and disseminated disease.
Cyriac Abby Philips +4 more
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, 2012 INTRODUCTION: Leishmaniasis is classified into three clinical presentations: visceral, coetaneous and mucocutaneous. The latter is usually secondary to hematogenous spread after months or years of skin infection and can manifest as infiltrative lesions ...
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Differentiation of mucosal lesions in mucocutaneous leishmaniasis and paracoccidioidomycosis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis and paracoccidioidomycosis are infectious diseases with similar epidemiological and clinical aspects. Cases of both diseases may manifest similar lesions in the mucosa.
Creuza Rachel Vicente, Aloisio Falqueto
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Anti-leishmania igA immunoenzymatic assay in mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (Preliminary report)
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1984 The Authors describe an anti-Leishmania IgA-ELISA assay in mucocutaneous leishmaniasis. Increased titers were found in leishmaniasis patients, mainly in the first and second year of infection and in deep mycoses patients showing either mucosal ...
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Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis in a Pregnant Immigrant
Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2022 Abstract Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a parasitic infection that causes significant maternal morbidity, and even fetal mortality, during pregnancy, yet there are limited therapeutic options. Here, we report a case of leishmaniasis in a pregnant immigrant with exuberant mucocutaneous lesions with favorable response to liposomal amphotericin
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Severe Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Patient Coinfected with Leishmania braziliensis and Its Endosymbiotic Virus. [PDF]
, 2016 Leishmania parasites cause a broad range of disease, with cutaneous afflictions being, by far, the most prevalent. Variations in disease severity and symptomatic spectrum are mostly associated to parasite species.
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Presentation of AIDS with Disseminated Cutaneous and Visceral Leishmaniasis in Iran
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2015 Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease in form of visceral (VL), cutaneous (CL), and mucocutaneous (MCL) leishmaniasis. Immunocompromised patients have increased risk of Leishmania infection, especially in endemic areas for visceral leishmaniasis, where
Mohammadali Davarpanah +2 more
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Leishmania enriettii in guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) in southern Brazil [PDF]
Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira: Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease with a worldwide distribution, transmitted to animals and humans through the blood meal of sand flies, caused by protozoa of the genus Leishmania.
Michelli L. de Souza +6 more
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Clinical, epidemiological and therapeuthic study of 402 patients with American cutaneous leishmaniasis seen at University Hospital of Brasilia, DF, Brazil [PDF]
, 2005 FUNDAMENTOS – A leishmaniose tegumentar americana é doença em expansão no Brasil. A região Centro- Oeste é hoje a terceira em incidência e a primeira em crescimento da doença.
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Localised Leishmaniasis of Oral Mucosa: Report of an Unusual Clinicopathological Entity
Case Reports in Dentistry, 2014 The term leishmaniasis comprises of a group of diseases caused by different species of a protozoan called Leishmania. There are three main clinical forms of leishmaniasis: visceral leishmaniasis, cutaneous leishmaniasis, and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis ...
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