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Leishmania isoenzyme polymorphisms in Ecuador: Relationships with geographic distribution and clinical presentation [PDF]

, 2006
Background: Determinants of the clinical presentation of the leishmaniases are poorly understood but Leishmania species and strain differences are important.
A Schriefer, AL Bañuls, B Rotureau, CM Lucas, D Evans, D McMahon-Pratt, E Cupolillo, E Cupolillo, E Handman, E Handman, EA Gomez, Eduardo A Gomez, F Pratlong, H Yamasaki, Hiroshi Uezato, Hirotomo Kato, J Convit, JB Alexander, JC Dujardin, JC Dujardin, JD Marco, JJ Shaw, Jorge D Marco, M Calvopina, M Calvopina, M Chico, M Furuya, Manuel Calvopina, Masataka Korenaga, NE Reiner, NG Saravia, P Jaccard, Paola A Barroso, Philip J Cooper, RD Kreutzer, Rodrigo X Armijos, RX Armijos, RX Armijos, S Kumar, S Nonaka, SB Abderrazak, Shigeo Nonaka, T Mimori, Tatsuyuki Mimori, World Health Organization, Y Hashiguchi, Y Hashiguchi, Y Hashiguchi, Yoshihisa Hashiguchi   +48 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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Prevalence of and Factors Associated with Negative Microscopic Diagnosis of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Rural Peru. [PDF]

, 2018
Cutaneous leishmaniasis is endemic to South America where diagnosis is most commonly conducted via microscopy. Patients with suspected leishmaniasis were referred for enrollment by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Lima, Iquitos, Puerto Maldonado, and ...
Alves, Clark, Ballard, Sarah-Blythe, Fuhrer, Jack, Lamm, Ryan, Lescano, Andres G., Messina, Catherine, Murphy, Meagan, Perez, Erika, Perrotta, Grace, Rosales, Luis Angel, Sanchez, Juan F., Smith, Edward, Valdivia, Hugo   +12 more
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Gender and Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Israel

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022
Leishmaniasis is estimated to be more common in males than in females. Our purpose was to evaluate differences in preponderance in relation to sex and gender across cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis in Israel. An observational study was performed,
Michal Solomon, Inbal Fuchs, Yael Glazer, Eli Schwartz   +3 more
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Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis/HIV Coinfection Presented as a Diffuse Desquamative Rash

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2014
Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease that is endemic in tropical areas and in the Mediterranean. This condition spreads to 98 countries in four continents, surpassing 12 million infected individuals, with 350 million people at risk of infection.
Guilherme Almeida Rosa da Silva, Daniel Sugui, Rafael Fernandes Nunes, Karime de Azevedo, Marcelo de Azevedo, Alexandre Marques, Carlos Martins, Fernando Raphael de Almeida Ferry   +7 more
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The immunological, environmental, and phylogenetic perpetrators of metastatic leishmaniasis. [PDF]

, 2014
Cutaneous leishmaniases have persisted for centuries as chronically disfiguring parasitic infections affecting millions of people across the subtropics.
Beverley, S.M., Drexler, S., Fasel, N., Hartley, M.A., Ronet, C.   +4 more
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Complete Resolution of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis With a Novel Topical Combination Therapy: A Case Series. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
ABSTRACT Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) remains a therapeutic challenge in endemic regions, with 600,000–1 million new cases annually facing limited treatment options. We present a case series evaluating an innovative topical combination therapy for acute‐phase CL in Shiraz, Iran.
Haghshenas H, Ghanaatpisheh A, Darayesh M, Entezar Almahdi E.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Kidney involvement in leishmaniasis—a review

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2014
Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease caused by protozoa of the genus Leishmania transmitted by insects of the genus Lutzomyia sp. or Phlebotomus sp.
Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Junior, Elvino José Guardão Barros, Elizabeth De Francesco Daher   +2 more
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Estudo clínico, epidemiológico e terapêutico de 402 pacientes com leishmaniose tegumentar americana atendidos no Hospital Universitário de Brasília, DF, Brasil Clinical, epidemiological and therapeuthic study of 402 patients with american cutaneous leishmaniasis attended at University Hospital of Brasilia, DF, Brazil

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2005
FUNDAMENTOS: A leishmaniose tegumentar americana é doença em expansão no Brasil. A região Centro-Oeste é hoje a terceira em incidência e a primeira em crescimento da doença.
Roberto Querido Name, Karinne Tavares Borges, Lucas Souza Carmo Nogueira, João Herman Duarte Sampaio, Pedro Luiz Tauil, Raimunda Nonata R. Sampaio   +5 more
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Pancreatic islet transplantation after upper abdominal exeriteration and liver replacement [PDF]

, 1990
Nine patients who became diabetic after upper-abdominal exenteration and liver transplantation were given pancreatic islet-cell grafts obtained from the liver donor (eight cases), a third-party donor (one), or both (four). Two patients were diabetic when
Alejandro, R, Demetris, AJ, Fung, JJ, Mintz, DH, Ricordi, C, Starzl, TE, Todo, S, Tzakis, AG, Zeng, Y   +8 more
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