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Arginase activity - a marker of disease status in patients with visceral leishmaniasis in ethiopia. [PDF]

, 2013
The underlying mechanisms resulting in the profound immune suppression characteristic of human visceral leishmaniasis (VL) are not fully understood. Here, we tested the hypothesis that arginase, an enzyme associated with immunosuppression, is higher in ...
Corset, C, Cloke Tom, Closs Ellen, Cloke, T, Yifru Sisay, Abebe Tamrat, Corset, M, Modolell, M, Takele, Yegnasew, Corware, Karina, Cloke, Tom, Sisay Yifru, Hailu, Workagegnehu, Munder, M, Tacchini-Cottier, F, Ingrid Müller, Kropf, P, Müller, Ingrid, Markus Munder, Weldegebreal, T, Weldegebreal Teklu, Teklu Weldegebreal, Closs, E, Sisay, Y, Hailu, W, Mueller, I, Pascale Kropf, Camille Corset, Müller Ingrid, Sisay, Yifru, Takele Yegnasew, Closs, Ellen, Karina Corware, Weldegebreal, Teklu, Modolell, Manuel, Corware, K, Asrat Hailu, Corware Karina, Abebe, T, Corset Margaux, Munder, Markus, Manuel Modolell, Hailu Workagegnehu, Hailu, A, Margaux Corset, Modolell Manuel, Workagegnehu Hailu, Kropf Pascale, Abebe, Tamrat, Tacchini-Cottier, Fabienne, Fabienne Tacchini-Cottier, Yegnasew Takele, Kropf, Pascale, Corset Camille, Munder Markus, Tom Cloke, Corset, Margaux, Ellen Closs, Tacchini-Cottier Fabienne, Hailu Asrat, Corset, Camille, Hailu, Asrat, Takele, Y, Tamrat Abebe, Closs, E., Abebe, T., Corset, C., Takele, Y., Sisay, Y., Hailu, A., Müller, I., Weldegebreal, T., Corset, M., Corware, K., Cloke, T., Modolell, M., Munder, M., Kropf, P., Tacchini-Cottier, F., Hailu, W.   +79 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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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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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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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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Para-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis in a patient in Brazil: a case report

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Visceral 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, Carlos Henrique Valente Moreira, Beatriz Julieta Celeste, Luiza Keiko Matsuka Oyafuso, Pedro Moreira Folegatti, Eduard Evert Zijlstra   +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, Alba Díaz, Octavio Bassegoda, Adriá Carpio, Carla Fuster, María Eugenia Valls, Miriam J. Alvarez-Martínez, Carolina García-Vidal, Alejandro Soriano, José Antonio Martínez, Juan Ambrosioni   +10 more
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Studies in epidemiology and seroepidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis in Iraq. [PDF]

A defined population was studied over a period of 7 months to elucidate the epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis in Iraq, using serological methods as a screening test.
Niazi, Amjad Daoud
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