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Nature Reviews Disease PrimersLeishmaniasis is an endemic disease in Asia, Africa, the Americas and Southern Europe caused by Leishmania parasites and transmitted through the bite of female sandflies, resulting in Leishmania replication in macrophages. The condition manifests either as visceral leishmaniasis, a potentially fatal systemic disease that causes persistent fever ...
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Clinical Medicine, 2011 Leishmaniasis is an uncommon infectious disease in the UK with a variety of clinical presentations. Physicians should remember to consider this diagnosis in patients with an appropriate travel history (including the Mediterranean basin) and seek help with diagnostics from a specialised parasitology laboratory.
Elinor M, Moore, Diana N, Lockwood
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Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, 2021 Leishmaniasis is a rare but potentially severe tropical infectious disease, and Norwegian clinicians are generally unfamiliar with its diagnosis and treatment. This study aimed to investigate the number of cases diagnosed, performance of diagnostic methods and treatment of leishmaniasis at five university hospitals in Norway.The number of cases ...
Kristine Mørch +9 more
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Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2006 Abstract Epidemiology, disease patterns, immunology, diagnosis, treatment and control measures of leishmaniasis are described. Various issues relating to leishmaniasis are highlighted: the relative lack of importance given to this disease is compared with other infections, climate change and its possible effect on extension of endemicity
Tonio V, Piscopo +1 more
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Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2021 Leishmaniasis is one of the chronic debilitating vector-borne diseases caused by obligate intracellular protozoa. The global burden of disease although not increasing but potential risk of spread is there. At least 20 species of Leishmania are pathogenic to human beings. The transmission is from female sandfly through a blood meal.
Daga, Mradul K +2 more
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hautnah dermatologie, 2015 ZusammenfassungInfektionen mit Leishmanien gehören zu den Top 3 der häufigsten Reisedermatosen. Je nach Reiseland und Immunstatus des Patienten unterscheiden sich die Krankheitsbilder. Die Infektion bildet sich in 90 % der Fälle als kutane Leishmaniasis aus, kann sich aber auch an den inneren Organen manifestieren (viszerale Leishmaniasis).
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Evaluation of a new live recombinant vaccine against cutaneous leishmaniasis in BALB/c mice
Parasites & Vectors, 2020 Background Leishmaniasis is a serious health problem in some parts of the world. In spite of the many known leishmaniasis control measures, the disease has continued to increase in endemic areas, and no effective vaccine has been discovered.
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The Lancet, 1999 In 1903, Leishman and Donovan separately described the protozoan now called Leishmania donovani in splenic tissue from patients in India with the life-threatening disease now called visceral leishmaniasis. Almost a century later, many features of leishmaniasis and its major syndromes (ie, visceral, cutaneous, and mucosal) have remained the same; but ...
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International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance, 2023 Leishmaniasis is an overlooked, poverty-stricken, and complex disease with growing social and public health problems. In general, leishmaniasis is a curable disease; however, there is an expansion of unresponsive cases to treatment in cutaneous ...
Mehdi Bamorovat +9 more
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JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, 2008 SummaryLeishmaniasis is a clinically heterogeneous group of diseases, caused by infection with protozoa of the genus Leishmania. The aggressiveness of the individual species, their organ preference and the host immune status determine disease course.
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