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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, J. Dereure, G. Mac Bullen, C. Blanchet, C. Ludwig, V. Costes, M. Rodière   +6 more
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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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Risk factors for anthroponotic cutaneous Leishmaniasis at the household level in Kabul, Afghanistan. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Kabul, Afghanistan, is the largest focus of anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) in the world. ACL is a protozoan disease transmitted to humans by the bite of phlebotomine sand flies.
Reithinger, Richard, Mohsen Mohammad, Leslie, Toby, Reithinger Richard, Mohsen, Mohammad, Richard Reithinger, Leslie Toby, Toby Leslie, Mohammad Mohsen   +8 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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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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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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The sandfly vectors and epidemiology of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Landazury Focus, Colombia. [PDF]

This thesis describes a comprehensive cohort study of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in a population of 2,704 followed over a period of 19 months, in the Opon focus, Landazury, Santander, Colombia.
Munoz-Mantilla, Gerardo
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Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in High‐Altitude: A Case Report From Nepal [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
ABSTRACT Leishmaniasis is a parasitic infection caused by Leishmania and spread by the bite of a sandfly, most commonly Phlebotomus. Among the three subtypes of Leishmaniasis, cutaneous leishmaniasis is the most common form. Visceral Leishmaniasis is common in Nepal whereas few cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis have been reported in migrant Nepalese ...
Aryal E, Sapkota R, Shrestha S, Baral A, Sapkota S, Phuyal M.   +5 more
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Hybrid reference genome assemblies for <i>Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis</i>, a primary agent of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis. [PDF]

Microbiol Resour Announc
We report high-quality long-read genome assemblies and annotations for two widely studied reference strains of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis , a primary agent of cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis.
Cotton JA, Van den Broeck F, Myler PJ, Akopyants NS, Berriman M, Beverley SM.   +5 more
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