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Drug Resistance in Visceral Leishmaniasis [PDF]
Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, 2010 Visceral leishmaniasis remains a public health problem worldwide. This illness was included by the World Health Organization in the list of neglected tropical diseases targeted for elimination by 2015. The widespread emergence of resistance to pentavalent antimonials in India where half cases occur globally and the unavailability of a vaccine in ...
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Vulnerability to the transmission of human visceral leishmaniasis in a Brazilian urban area
Revista de Saúde PúblicaOBJECTIVE To analyze the determinants for the occurrence of human visceral leishmaniasis linked to the conditions of vulnerability. METHODS This is an ecological study, whose spatial analysis unit was the Territorial Analysis Unit in Araguaína, State ...
Celina Roma Sánchez de Toledo +5 more
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Pediatric visceral leishmaniasis in Albania
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2002 Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in children is endemic in southern Europe but has not been previously reported from Albania. This prospective study reports the clinical and laboratory findings in 50 children with visceral leishmaniasis, the value of a direct agglutination test (DAT), and the result of treatment with meglumine antimonate.Sera obtained from ...
G. Sulcebe +4 more
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Zoonotic Host Richness in the Global Wildland–Urban Interface
Global Change Biology, Volume 31, Issue 2, February 2025.In the wildland–urban interface (WUI), where human settlements abut or intermix with wildlands, people may encounter animals that host zoonotic pathogens, which can spillover to cause human disease. We map the distribution of zoonotic hosts in the global WUI and show that large populations in tropical low–middle‐income countries (LMICs) are potentially
Rohan D. Simkin +5 more
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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 +4 more
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Leishmaniasis in rheumatoid arthritis
Reumatismo, 2011 Leishmaniasis represents a complex of diseases with an important clinical and epidemiological diversity. Visceral leishmaniasis is of higher priority than cutaneous leishmaniasis as it is a fatal disease in the absence of treatment. The clinical spectrum
M. Cutolo, M.E. Secchi, C. Pizzorni
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Visceral leishmaniasis in eastern Africa--current status. [PDF]
, 2007 Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is among the most neglected of the tropical diseases, afflicting the poorest of the poor. In eastern Africa, VL causes at least 4000 deaths annually, a loss of approximately 385,000 disability-adjusted life years.
Brooker, Simon +2 more
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Leishmaniasis in the Argentine Republic: Temporal and geographical distribution from 2013 to 2017
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2019 Objective: To assess the temporal and geographical distribution of confirmed cases of cutaneous, mucocutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis in the Argentine Republic from 2013 to 2017.
María J Germano +5 more
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Context Driven Label Fusion for segmentation of Subcutaneous and Visceral Fat in CT Volumes [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 Quantification of adipose tissue (fat) from computed tomography (CT) scans is conducted mostly through manual or semi-automated image segmentation algorithms with limited efficacy. In this work, we propose a completely unsupervised and automatic method to identify adipose tissue, and then separate Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue (SAT) from Visceral Adipose
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