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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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Rapid Detection of Leishmania infantum Infection in Dogs: Comparative Study Using an Immunochromatographic Dipstick Test, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, and PCR [PDF]

, 2002
Current zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (ZVL) control programs in Brazil include the culling of Leishmania infantum-infected reservoir dogs, a strategy that has failed to prevent a rise of canine and human ZVL cases over the past decade.
Bruce Alex, Bruce Alex, Clive R. Davies, Clive R. Davies, J. Clin Microbiol, Richard Reithinger, Richard Reithinger, Rupert J. Quinnell, Rupert J. Quinnell   +8 more
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Low castes have poor access to visceral leishmaniasis treatment in Bihar, India [PDF]

, 2012
Objectives  Bihar, the poorest state in India, concentrates most of the visceral leishmaniasis (VL) cases in the country. A large proportion of the poor rural communities where VL is endemic are marginalized by their socio-economic status, intrinsically ...
Alvar, Babu, Barratt, Boelaert, Cerf, Collin, de Onis, Dedet, Desjeux, Dye, Hasker, Heymann, India., G.o, Mondal, Ostyn, Ranjan, Sinha, Thakur, Van de Poel, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO/UNICEF   +22 more
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Epidemiological aspects of the first human autochthonous visceral leishmaniosis cases in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019
Human visceral leishmaniasis is a growing anthropozoonosis in Brazil, and particularly in the southern region of the country. It is an infectious disease transmitted to humans, dogs and other animals in urban and rural areas of the Americas, mainly due ...
Ibrahim Clós Mahmud, Letícia de Araujo Saraiva Piassini, Fabrizio Motta, Paulo Renato Petersen Behar, Getúlio Dornelles Souza   +4 more
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Evaluación de una prueba de aglutinación directa como método alternativo para el diagnóstico de leishmaniasis visceral canina y humana en Venezuela

Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2007
Introducción. La leishmaniasis visceral es la forma clínica más grave de la leishmaniasis. Ésta puede ser fatal si no se administra el tratamiento adecuado.
Guillermo Terán-Angel, Henk Schallig, Olga Zerpa, Vestalia Rodríguez, Marian Ulrich, Maira Cabrera   +5 more
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Characterization of a municipality as free of canine visceral leishmaniasis in the context of One Health

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, 2021
Dogs are the main urban reservoir of Leishmania infantum, the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), which is transmitted by sand flies. In the state of Paraná, the first detection of a positive dog for VL was in 2014, this year Paraná lost free
Silvia Cristina Osaki, Ricardo Babinski Bregonde, Vinicius Dahm, Priscila Pereira, Claudomiro Postai, Monique Paiva de Campos, Fabiano Borges Figueiredo   +6 more
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The recombinant cysteine proteinase B (CPB) from Leishmania braziliensis and its domains: promising antigens for serodiagnosis of cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis in dogs. [PDF]

, 2019
Leishmaniasis represents a group of parasitic diseases caused by a protozoan of the genus Leishmania and is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions.
Basombrío, Manuel Alberto, Bivona, Augusto Ernesto, Cardoso Landaburu, Alejandro Cesar, Cazorla, Silvia Ines, Cerny, Natacha, Czentner Colomo, Lucas, Estevez, José Octavio, Malchiodi, Emilio Luis, Marco, Jorge Diego, Nevot, María Cecilia, Sanchez Alberti, Andrés   +10 more
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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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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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Co-infection of Leishmania infantum and a Crithidia-related species in a case of refractory relapsed visceral leishmaniasis with non-ulcerated cutaneous manifestation in Brazil

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023
We report a refractory and relapsed visceral leishmaniasis case in a male child patient followed from 2016 to 2020, whose clinical isolates from multiple relapses were analyzed at the genome level.
Luana Aparecida Rogerio, Talita Yuri Takahashi, Luria Cardoso, Nayore Tamie Takamiya, Enaldo Vieira de Melo, Amelia Ribeiro de Jesus, Fabricia Alvisi de Oliveira, Sarah Forrester, Daniel C. Jeffares, João Santana da Silva, José Marcos Ribeiro, Roque Pacheco Almeida, Sandra Regina Maruyama   +12 more
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