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Recent Development of Visceral Leishmaniasis Treatments: Successes, Pitfalls, and Perspectives
Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2018 Research in visceral leishmaniasis in the last decade has been focused on how better to use the existing medicines as monotherapy or in combination. Systematic research by geographical regions has shown that a universal treatment is far from today's ...
F. Alves +16 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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Cyclin-dependent kinase 12, a novel drug target for visceral leishmaniasis
Nature, 2018 Visceral leishmaniasis causes considerable mortality and morbidity in many parts of the world. There is an urgent need for the development of new, effective treatments for this disease.
S. Wyllie +31 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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Current and promising novel drug candidates against visceral leishmaniasis
Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2019 Leishmaniasis is a group of zoonotic diseases caused by a trypanosomatid parasite mostly in impoverished populations of low-income countries. In their different forms, leishmaniasis is prevalent in more than 98 countries all over the world and ...
Rosa M. Reguera +7 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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Non-Leishmania Parasite in Fatal Visceral Leishmaniasis–Like Disease, Brazil
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019 Through whole-genome sequencing analysis, we identified non-Leishmania parasites isolated from a man with a fatal visceral leishmaniasis–like illness in Brazil. The parasites infected mice and reproduced the patient’s clinical manifestations.
S. Maruyama +14 more
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Para-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis in a patient in Brazil: a case report
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina TropicalVisceral leishmaniasis is common in Brazil and is caused by Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum/chagasi. Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis frequently follows visceral leishmaniasis caused by L.
José Angelo Lauletta Lindoso +5 more
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Acute liver failure due to visceral leishmaniasis in Barcelona: a case report
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019 Background Leishmaniasis is an emerging infectious disease. Due to human migration and tourism, visceral leishmaniasis may become more common in non-endemic areas. In the Mediterranean basin, visceral leishmaniasis typically occurs in rural regions. Case
Iratxe Martinez de Narvajas +10 more
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