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Efficacy and Safety of Paromomycin for Visceral Leishmaniasis: A Systematic Review

Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2021
Visceral leishmaniasis, also known as kala-azar is one of the most commonly neglected tropical diseases affecting a large number of rural and resource-limited people in South Asia, Africa, and South America.
Pashupati Pokharel, Rakesh Ghimire, Pratik Lamichhane   +2 more
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Changing Pattern of Visceral Leishmaniasis, United Kingdom, 1985-2004 [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006
A 20-year (1985–2004) retrospective review of 39 patients with imported visceral leishmaniasis found that tourism to Mediterranean countries and HIV infection were associated with visceral leishmaniasis. Diagnosis was often delayed.
Aeesha N.J. Malik, Lawrence John, Anthony D.M. Bryceson, Diana N.J. Lockwood   +3 more
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Visceral Leishmaniasis: Recent Advances in Diagnostics and Treatment Regimens.

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2019
Diagnostic advances in visceral leishmaniasis include the development of the rK39 and rK28 rapid diagnostic test. The direct agglutination test is also increasingly used, as well as conventional and real-time polymerase chain reaction, which also performs well on peripheral blood.
J. van Griensven, E. Diro
semanticscholar   +6 more sources

Malaria-visceral leishmaniasis co-infection and associated factors among migrant laborers in West Armachiho district, North West Ethiopia: community based cross-sectional study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background Malaria and leishmaniasis are the two largest parasitic killers in the world. Due togeographical overlap of these diseases, malaria-visceral leishmaniasis co-infections occur in large populations and exist in different areas even if they have ...
Yibeltal Aschale, Animen Ayehu, Ligabaw Worku, Habtie Tesfa, Meseret Birhanie, Wossenseged Lemma   +5 more
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Human visceral leishmaniasis and relationship with vector and canine control measures

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2018
OBJECTIVE Estimate the coverage of control measures of visceral leishmaniasis and relate them with the occurrence of human visceral leishmaniasis in endemic urban area.
Danielle Nunes Carneiro Castro Costa, Patricia Marques Moralejo Bermudi, Lilian Aparecida Colebrusco Rodas, Caris Maroni Nunes, Roberto Mitsuyoshi Hiramoto, José Eduardo Tolezano, Rafael Silva Cipriano, Graziela Cândido Diniz Cardoso, Cláudia Torres Codeço, Francisco Chiaravalloti Neto   +9 more
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Epidemiological aspects of human and canine visceral leishmaniasis in State of Alagoas, Northeast, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2018
Zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (ZVL), caused by protozoans of the genus Leishmania, it is a worldwide of great importance disease. In the northeast region of Brazil, the state of Alagoas has an endemic status for ZVL.
M. A. N. Rocha, T. J. Matos-Rocha, C. M. B. Ribeiro, S. R. O. Abreu   +3 more
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Vulnerability to the transmission of human visceral leishmaniasis in a Brazilian urban area

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2017
OBJECTIVE To analyze the determinants for the occurrence of human visceral leishmaniasis linked to the conditions of vulnerability. METHODS This is an ecological study, whose spatial analysis unit was the Territorial Analysis Unit in Araguaína, State ...
Celina Roma Sánchez de Toledo, Andréa Sobral de Almeida, Sergio Augusto de Miranda Chaves, Paulo Chagastelles Sabroza, Luciano Medeiros Toledo, Jefferson Pereira Caldas   +5 more
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Of cattle, sand flies and men : a systematic review of risk factor analyses for South Asian visceral leishmaniasis and implications for elimination [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Studies performed over the past decade have identified fairly consistent epidemiological patterns of risk factors for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Indian subcontinent.
A Nandy, A Palit, A Palit, A Ranjan, AK Chakravarty, AK Mukhopadhyay, AK Mukhopadhyay, B Alexander, B Alten, B Basak, B Bucheton, BJ Cerf, BL Travi, C Bern, C Bern, C Bern, C Bern, C Bern, C Donovan, C Dye, C Tortajada, Caryn Bern, CH Costa, CP Thakur, D Bora, D Lewis, DS Dinesh, DS Dinesh, DW Kelly, DW Kelly, EE Zijlstra, F Chappuis, GM Anstead, H Reyburn, H Shortt, HE Shortt, J Alvar, J Alvar, J Ordonez Gonzalez, JH Kolaczinski, JM Blackwell, Jorge Alvar, K Ghosh, K Rahman, K Schenkel, KN Ghosh, KN Ghosh, L Jalouk, L Moral, L Napier, L Napier, L Srivastava, LE Napier, LJ Kennedy, M Addy, M Boelaert, M Elias, M Kundu, M Rukunuzzaman, Marleen Boelaert, MC Sharma, MD Feliciangeli, MR Yaghoobi-Ershadi, O Courtenay, O Courtenay, Orin Courtenay, P Barnett, P Sivaprakasam, PC Sen Gupta, PC Sen Gupta, PC Sen Gupta, R Badaro, R Kumar, R Molina, R Molina, R Singh, R Smith, RC Dhiman, RC Dhiman, RJ Quinnell, RJ Quinnell, RJ Quinnell, RK Sanyal, RK Singh, RP Lane, S Christophers, S Kesari, S Saha, S Sundar, S Sundar, SK Bhattacharya, SM Kaul, SMB Jeronimo, TM Karplus, V Kumar, V Ramesh   +95 more
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Role of Cytokines in Experimental and Human Visceral Leishmaniasis

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021
Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) is the most fatal form of disease leishmaniasis. To date, there are no effective prophylactic measures and therapeutics available against VL.
M. Samant, Utkarsha Sahu, S. Pandey, P. Khare   +3 more
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Immunity to Visceral Leishmaniasis [PDF]

Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2012
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Ali, Nahid Ben, Mekuria, Asrat Hailu, Requena Rolania, José María, Engwerda, Christian R.   +3 more
openaire   +6 more sources