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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 +9 more
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Epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis [PDF]
Clinical Epidemiology, 2014 Leishmania species are the causative agents of leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease. These parasitic protozoans are usually transmitted between vertebrate hosts by the bite of blood sucking female phlebotomine sand flies. This review focuses on the two parasites causing most human visceral leishmaniasis (VL), which leads to substantial health ...
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Changing Pattern of Visceral Leishmaniasis, United Kingdom, 1985-2004
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 +3 more
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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 +4 more
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Visceral leishmaniasis in Afghanistan [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2006 Despite being the third most important vector-borne diseases worldwide in terms of burden of disease, the leishmaniases are one of the so-called “neglected diseases.” Since the massive humanitarian re-construction efforts began after the fall of the Taliban in 2002, Afghanistan is ...
Najibullah Mahboob +8 more
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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 +5 more
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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 +5 more
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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 +6 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 +6 more
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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 +12 more
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