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Challenges in diagnosis of genital ulcers: a genital leishmaniasis case series

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2021
Leishmaniasis is a tropical infectious disease caused by Leishmania spp. protozoa and is transmitted by insects from the Phlebotominae subfamily. It can manifest as cutaneous leishmaniasis, a painless ulcer that can develop into a more serious systemic ...
Marina Dias de Souza, Aloísio Falqueto, Gabriela Lopes de Morais, Amanda da Silva Salomão, Fernanda Daher Pereira   +4 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, Daniel Sugui, Rafael Fernandes Nunes, Karime de Azevedo, Marcelo de Azevedo, Alexandre Marques, Carlos Martins, Fernando Raphael de Almeida Ferry   +7 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, Inbal Fuchs, Yael Glazer, Eli Schwartz   +3 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, Ermias Teklehaimanot, Rezika Mohammed, Miklol Mengistu, Bewketu Abebe, Johan van Griensven, Saskia van Henten   +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, Elvino José Guardão Barros, Elizabeth De Francesco Daher   +2 more
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Estudo clínico, epidemiológico e terapêutico de 402 pacientes com leishmaniose tegumentar americana atendidos no Hospital Universitário de Brasília, DF, Brasil Clinical, epidemiological and therapeuthic study of 402 patients with american cutaneous leishmaniasis attended at University Hospital of Brasilia, DF, Brazil

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, Karinne Tavares Borges, Lucas Souza Carmo Nogueira, João Herman Duarte Sampaio, Pedro Luiz Tauil, Raimunda Nonata R. Sampaio   +5 more
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Simultaneous Occurrence of Ocular, Disseminated Mucocutaneous, and Multivisceral Involvement of Leishmaniasis

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, Chetan Ramesh Kalal, K. N. Chandan Kumar, Chhagan Bihari, Shiv Kumar Sarin   +4 more
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Clinical aspects and relevance of molecular diagnosis in late mucocutaneous leishmaniasis patients in Paraná, Brazil

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, Marcos Mocellin, Fabiane Mulinari, Edilene Alcântara de Castro, Flávio de Queiroz-Telles, Fernanda de Souza Alcântara, Marcello Tortelli Bavaresco, Luciane Hennig, Anielo Andraus, Ennio Luz, Vanete Thomaz-Soccol   +10 more
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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, Antonio Walter Ferreira, Márcia B. de Carvalho, Beatriz J. Celeste, Luiz Carlos Cucé, Walter Belda Jr.   +5 more
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Vectors and Vector‐Borne Diseases: Biology, Epidemiology and Integrated Control Strategies

Journal of Applied Entomology, Volume 150, Issue 7, Page 990-1015, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Vector‐Borne Diseases (VBDs), transmitted by arthropods such as mosquitoes, ticks, fleas and sandflies, represent a significant threat to global health. These diseases can be caused by a variety of pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and helminths.
Roberta Rinaldi, Carmen Scieuzo, Federica De Stefano, Luca Masucci, Patrizia Falabella   +4 more
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