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Hyponatremia in visceral leishmaniasis [PDF]
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2010 There are few reports linking hyponatremia and visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar). This is a study of 55 consecutive kala-azar patients and 20 normal individuals as a control group. Hyponatremia and serum hypo-osmolality were detected in 100% of kala-azar patients. High first morning urine osmolality (750.0 ± 52.0 vs.
Verde, Frederico A. Lima +5 more
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Canine visceral leishmaniasis: Diagnosis and management of the reservoir living among us
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018 This article reviews essential topics of canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL) due to Leishmania infantum infection. It focuses on the current serological and molecular diagnostic methods used in epidemiological research and veterinary clinics to diagnose ...
B. Travi +3 more
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Visceral leishmaniasis in Afghanistan [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2006 Despite being the third most important vector-borne diseases worldwide in terms of burden of disease, the leishmaniases are one of the so-called “neglected diseases.” Since the massive humanitarian re-construction efforts began after the fall of the Taliban in 2002, Afghanistan is ...
Toby, Leslie +8 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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Current Visceral Leishmaniasis Research: A Research Review to Inspire Future Study
BioMed Research International, 2018 Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), one of the deadliest parasitic diseases in the world, causes more than 50,000 human deaths each year and afflicts millions of people throughout South America, East Africa, South Asia, and Mediterranean Region.
Kaiming Bi +4 more
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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 +5 more
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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 +6 more
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Visceral leishmaniasis and HIV coinfection: current perspectives
HIV/AIDS, 2018 Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is caused by Leishmania donovani and Leishmania infantum. The burden of VL is concentrated in tropical and subtropical areas; however, HIV infection has spread VL over a hyperendemic area.
J. Lindoso +3 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 +6 more
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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 +12 more
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