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Mucosal relapse of visceral leishmaniasis in a child treated with anti-TNFα
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2015 Visceral leishmaniasis is an enzootic parasitosis present across the Mediterranean Basin. Some consider it an opportunistic parasite. We report the case of a girl treated with anti-tumour necrosis factor alpha (anti-TNFα) for juvenile idiopathic ...
E. Jeziorski +6 more
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Gender and Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Israel
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Leishmaniasis is estimated to be more common in males than in females. Our purpose was to evaluate differences in preponderance in relation to sex and gender across cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis in Israel. An observational study was performed,
Michal Solomon +3 more
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Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis/HIV Coinfection Presented as a Diffuse Desquamative Rash
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2014 Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease that is endemic in tropical areas and in the Mediterranean. This condition spreads to 98 countries in four continents, surpassing 12 million infected individuals, with 350 million people at risk of infection.
Guilherme Almeida Rosa da Silva +7 more
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Atypical Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis Presentation Mimicking Rectal Cancer
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2023 Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease affecting mostly the exposed skin, causing severe and disfiguring lesions in Ethiopia. In this report, we present two cases of atypical mucocutaneous leishmaniasis; one HIV positive and one HIV ...
Helina Fikre +6 more
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Kidney involvement in leishmaniasis—a review
Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2014 Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease caused by protozoa of the genus Leishmania transmitted by insects of the genus Lutzomyia sp. or Phlebotomus sp.
Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Junior +2 more
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Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 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.
Roberto Querido Name +5 more
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Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2011 The aim of the present work was to study the clinical aspects and relevance of molecular diagnosis in late mucocutaneous leishmaniasis patients in Parana, Brazil.
Andréa Thomaz-Soccol +10 more
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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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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 ...
M. Carolina S. Guimarães +5 more
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