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Leishmaniasis in the United States: Emerging Issues in a Region of Low Endemicity

Microorganisms, 2021
Leishmaniasis, a chronic and persistent intracellular protozoal infection caused by many different species within the genus Leishmania, is an unfamiliar disease to most North American providers.
John M. Curtin, Naomi E. Aronson
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Visceral Leishmaniasis in Dogs [PDF]

Acta Scientiae Veterinariae, 2021
Background: Canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL) is a zoonosis of variable clinical presentation, either in systemic or cutaneous form. Clinical signs include anorexia, ophthalmopathies, and chronic kidney disease. In the state of Santa Catarina, the foci are concentrated in the capital and its adjacencies, in the east side of the state.
Silveira, Nathalia Saynovich Dutra, Mendes, Eduarda Mariana, Pereira, Marcy Lancia, Tavela, Alexandre de Oliveira, Veiga, Angela Patricia Medeiros, Zimermann, Francielli Cordeiro   +5 more
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ANÁLISE DOS FATORES QUE INFLUENCIAM A OCORRÊNCIA DA LEISHMANIOSE VISCERAL HUMANA

Cogitare Enfermagem, 2021
Objective: to analyze the factors that influence the occurrence of Human Visceral Leishmaniasis in the state of Paraíba, Brazil. Methods: ecological study, developed with data from 2012 to 2017, collected in a reference laboratory in the state and in the
Allan Batista Silva, Francisca Inês de Sousa Freitas, Clélia de Alencar Xavier Mota, Maria Eliane Moreira Freire, Hemílio Fernandes Campos Coêlho, Caliandra Maria Bezerra Luna Lima   +5 more
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Treatment of visceral leishmaniasis

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases, 2010
The available treatment options for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) have problems relating to efficacy, adverse effects and cost, making treatment a complex issue. We review the evidence relating to the different methods of treatment in relation to - efficacy and toxicity of the drugs in different areas of the world; ability to monitor side effects, length
Diana N. J. Lockwood, EM Moore
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Perceived quality of life among Visceral Leishmaniasis and HIV coinfected migrant male-workers in Northwest Ethiopia: a qualitative study

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background There is paucity of data on quality of life as a dimension of treatment outcome among Visceral Leishmaniasis and HIV coinfected patients. This study sought to explore perceived quality of life among Visceral Leishmaniasis and HIV coinfected ...
Mekuriaw Alemayehu, Mamo Wubshet, Nebiyu Mesfin, Abebaw Gebayehu   +3 more
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Leishmaniasis visceral en médula ósea

, 2016
Una mujer de 47 anos, fue evaluada en Emergencias con fiebre y pancitopenia, con velocidad de eritrosedimentacion en 160mm/h (0-20mm/h) y deshidrogenasa lactica en 980 U/L (140-280 U/L).
Max A. Méndez López, Jorge López Villegas   +1 more
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Diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis [PDF]

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2011
Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease with up to 350 million people at risk of infection worldwide. Among its different clinical manifestations, visceral is the most severe form. Since clinical features of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) mimic several other common diseases, accurate diagnosis is crucial as the treatment is associated with significant ...
Shyam Sundar, Anand Dayama, Pankaj Srivastava, Sanjana Mehrotra   +3 more
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Presentation of AIDS with Disseminated Cutaneous and Visceral Leishmaniasis in Iran

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2015
Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease in form of visceral (VL), cutaneous (CL), and mucocutaneous (MCL) leishmaniasis. Immunocompromised patients have increased risk of Leishmania infection, especially in endemic areas for visceral leishmaniasis, where
Mohammadali Davarpanah, Masumeh Rassaei, Fatemeh Sari aslani   +2 more
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Leishmaniasis Parasite Segmentation and Classification using Deep Learning [PDF]

Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, Series volume 10945 , 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature, 2018
Leishmaniasis is considered a neglected disease that causes thousands of deaths annually in some tropical and subtropical countries. There are various techniques to diagnose leishmaniasis of which manual microscopy is considered to be the gold standard.
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Preclinical candidate for the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis that acts through proteasome inhibition

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019
Significance Safer and more effective oral drugs are urgently required to treat visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a neglected parasitic disease that kills 20,000–40,000 people each year in parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
S. Wyllie, S. Brand, Michael G. Thomas, M. De Rycker, C. Chung, Imanol Peña, Ryan P. Bingham, Juan A. Bueren-Calabuig, J. Cantizani, D. Cebrián, P. Craggs, L. Ferguson, P. Goswami, J. Hobrath, Jonathan R Howe, Laura Jeacock, E. Ko, J. Korczynska, Lorna M MacLean, Sujatha Manthri, M. Martínez, Lydia Mata-Cantero, S. Moniz, Andrea Nühs, Maria Osuna-Cabello, É. Pinto, Jennifer Riley, Sharon A Robinson, P. Rowland, Frederick R. C. Simeons, Y. Shishikura, D. Spinks, L. Stojanovski, John Thomas, S. Thompson, Elisabet Viayna Gaza, Richard J. Wall, F. Zuccotto, D. Horn, M. Ferguson, A. Fairlamb, J. Fiandor, Julio Martin, David W. Gray, T. Miles, I. Gilbert, K. Read, Maria Marco, P. Wyatt   +48 more
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