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Leishmaniasis in the United States: Emerging Issues in a Region of Low Endemicity

Microorganisms, 2021
Leishmaniasis, a chronic and persistent intracellular protozoal infection caused by many different species within the genus Leishmania, is an unfamiliar disease to most North American providers.
John M. Curtin, Naomi E. Aronson
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Leishmaniasis: new approaches to disease control. [PDF]

, 2003
The leishmaniases afflict the world's poorest populations. Among the two million new cases each year in the 88 countries where the disease is endemic (fig 1), it is estimated that 80% earn less than $2 a day.
Croft, Simon L, Davies, Clive R, Kaye, Paul, Sundar, Shyam   +3 more
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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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Limited effectiveness of high-dose liposomal amphotericin B (AmBisome) for treatment of visceral leishmaniasis in an Ethiopian population with high HIV prevalence. [PDF]

, 2011
Due to unacceptably high mortality with pentavalent antimonials, Médecins Sans Frontières in 2006 began using liposomal amphotericin B (AmBisome) for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) patients in Ethiopia who were severely ill or positive for human ...
Aderie, Endashaw Mengistu, Chane, Solomon, Collin, Simon M, Davidson, Robert N, Piening, Turid, Ritmeijer, Koert, ter Horst, Rachel   +6 more
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Preclinical candidate for the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis that acts through proteasome inhibition

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019
Significance Safer and more effective oral drugs are urgently required to treat visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a neglected parasitic disease that kills 20,000–40,000 people each year in parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
S. Wyllie, S. Brand, Michael G. Thomas, M. De Rycker, C. Chung, Imanol Peña, Ryan P. Bingham, Juan A. Bueren-Calabuig, J. Cantizani, D. Cebrián, P. Craggs, L. Ferguson, P. Goswami, J. Hobrath, Jonathan R Howe, Laura Jeacock, E. Ko, J. Korczynska, Lorna M MacLean, Sujatha Manthri, M. Martínez, Lydia Mata-Cantero, S. Moniz, Andrea Nühs, Maria Osuna-Cabello, É. Pinto, Jennifer Riley, Sharon A Robinson, P. Rowland, Frederick R. C. Simeons, Y. Shishikura, D. Spinks, L. Stojanovski, John Thomas, S. Thompson, Elisabet Viayna Gaza, Richard J. Wall, F. Zuccotto, D. Horn, M. Ferguson, A. Fairlamb, J. Fiandor, Julio Martin, David W. Gray, T. Miles, I. Gilbert, K. Read, Maria Marco, P. Wyatt   +48 more
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Cytokines: Key Determinants of Resistance or Disease Progression in Visceral Leishmaniasis: Opportunities for Novel Diagnostics and Immunotherapy

Frontiers in Immunology, 2019
Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease of humans, highly prevalent in parts of the tropics, subtropics, and southern Europe. The disease mainly occurs in three different clinical forms namely cutaneous, mucocutaneous, and visceral leishmaniasis (VL).
A. Dayakar, S. Chandrasekaran, S. Kuchipudi, Suresh K. Kalangi   +3 more
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Perceived quality of life among Visceral Leishmaniasis and HIV coinfected migrant male-workers in Northwest Ethiopia: a qualitative study

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background There is paucity of data on quality of life as a dimension of treatment outcome among Visceral Leishmaniasis and HIV coinfected patients. This study sought to explore perceived quality of life among Visceral Leishmaniasis and HIV coinfected ...
Mekuriaw Alemayehu, Mamo Wubshet, Nebiyu Mesfin, Abebaw Gebayehu   +3 more
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ANÁLISE DOS FATORES QUE INFLUENCIAM A OCORRÊNCIA DA LEISHMANIOSE VISCERAL HUMANA

Cogitare Enfermagem, 2021
Objective: to analyze the factors that influence the occurrence of Human Visceral Leishmaniasis in the state of Paraíba, Brazil. Methods: ecological study, developed with data from 2012 to 2017, collected in a reference laboratory in the state and in the
Allan Batista Silva, Francisca Inês de Sousa Freitas, Clélia de Alencar Xavier Mota, Maria Eliane Moreira Freire, Hemílio Fernandes Campos Coêlho, Caliandra Maria Bezerra Luna Lima   +5 more
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Eliminating visceral leishmaniasis in South Asia: the road ahead

British medical journal, 2019
Suman Rijal and colleagues highlight lessons from a regional collaboration to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis and identify priorities for the post-elimination ...
S. Rijal, S. Sundar, D. Mondal, P. Das, J. Alvar, M. Boelaert   +5 more
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Presentation of AIDS with Disseminated Cutaneous and Visceral Leishmaniasis in Iran

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2015
Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease in form of visceral (VL), cutaneous (CL), and mucocutaneous (MCL) leishmaniasis. Immunocompromised patients have increased risk of Leishmania infection, especially in endemic areas for visceral leishmaniasis, where
Mohammadali Davarpanah, Masumeh Rassaei, Fatemeh Sari aslani   +2 more
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