Results 31 to 40 of about 31,870 (205)

Epidemiological aspects of the first human autochthonous visceral leishmaniosis cases in Porto Alegre, Brazil

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, Letícia de Araujo Saraiva Piassini, Fabrizio Motta, Paulo Renato Petersen Behar, Getúlio Dornelles Souza   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluación de una prueba de aglutinación directa como método alternativo para el diagnóstico de leishmaniasis visceral canina y humana en Venezuela

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, Henk Schallig, Olga Zerpa, Vestalia Rodríguez, Marian Ulrich, Maira Cabrera   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Malaria-visceral leishmaniasis co-infection and associated factors among migrant laborers in West Armachiho district, North West Ethiopia: community based cross-sectional study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background Malaria and leishmaniasis are the two largest parasitic killers in the world. Due togeographical overlap of these diseases, malaria-visceral leishmaniasis co-infections occur in large populations and exist in different areas even if they have ...
Yibeltal Aschale, Animen Ayehu, Ligabaw Worku, Habtie Tesfa, Meseret Birhanie, Wossenseged Lemma   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characterization of a municipality as free of canine visceral leishmaniasis in the context of One Health

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, Ricardo Babinski Bregonde, Vinicius Dahm, Priscila Pereira, Claudomiro Postai, Monique Paiva de Campos, Fabiano Borges Figueiredo   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Topical insecticide treatments to protect dogs from sand fly vectors of leishmaniasis. [PDF]

, 2001
We compared the susceptibility of sand fly vectors to four topical insecticide treatments applied to domestic dogs, a reservoir of human leishmaniasis. Dogs were exposed to sand flies pretreatment and at 1 week, 1 month, and 2 months posttreatment.
Teodoro, U, Reithinger, R, Clive R. Davies, Richard Reithinger, Davies, CR, Ueslei Teodoro   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

Co-infection of Leishmania infantum and a Crithidia-related species in a case of refractory relapsed visceral leishmaniasis with non-ulcerated cutaneous manifestation in Brazil

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, Talita Yuri Takahashi, Luria Cardoso, Nayore Tamie Takamiya, Enaldo Vieira de Melo, Amelia Ribeiro de Jesus, Fabricia Alvisi de Oliveira, Sarah Forrester, Daniel C. Jeffares, João Santana da Silva, José Marcos Ribeiro, Roque Pacheco Almeida, Sandra Regina Maruyama   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Para-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis in a patient in Brazil: a case report

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Visceral leishmaniasis is common in Brazil and is caused by Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum/chagasi. Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis frequently follows visceral leishmaniasis caused by L.
José Angelo Lauletta Lindoso, Carlos Henrique Valente Moreira, Beatriz Julieta Celeste, Luiza Keiko Matsuka Oyafuso, Pedro Moreira Folegatti, Eduard Evert Zijlstra   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acute liver failure due to visceral leishmaniasis in Barcelona: a case report

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background Leishmaniasis is an emerging infectious disease. Due to human migration and tourism, visceral leishmaniasis may become more common in non-endemic areas. In the Mediterranean basin, visceral leishmaniasis typically occurs in rural regions. Case
Iratxe Martinez de Narvajas, Alba Díaz, Octavio Bassegoda, Adriá Carpio, Carla Fuster, María Eugenia Valls, Miriam J. Alvarez-Martínez, Carolina García-Vidal, Alejandro Soriano, José Antonio Martínez, Juan Ambrosioni   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sodium Stibogluconate (SSG) & Paromomycin Combination Compared to SSG for Visceral Leishmaniasis in East Africa: A Randomised Controlled Trial

, 2012
Alternative treatments for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) are required in East Africa.
Makonnen, Eyasu, Khalil Eltahir, Eltahir Khalil (156978), Musa, Ahmed, Ahmed El-Hassan (157032), Abuzaid Abdalla Abuzaid (157013), Kesusu, Josephine, Yifru Sisay, Mbui Jane, Sisay Yifru, Hailu, Workagegnehu, Raymond Omollo, Serah Ndegwa, Juma Rashid (156998), Fadlalla, Ahmed, Geoffrey Mutuma (157058), Weldegebreal Teklu, Teklu Weldegebreal, Zewdu Hurissa, Rhoda Owiti, Marius Mueller (157039), Brima Musa, Raymond Omollo (156992), Tafes Hailemariam, Kesusu Josephine, Teklu Weldegebreal (101974), Mengistu, Getahun, Ahmed El-Hassan, Hailemariam Tafes, Osama Ahmed (157018), Tafes, Hailemariam, Ahmed Musa (156973), Brima Musa (157009), Geoffrey Mucee, Kimutai, Robert, Sagaki Patrick, Joseph Olobo (156982), El-Hassan Ahmed, Olobo Joseph, Omollo Raymond, George Kirigi (157066), Robert Kimutai (157106), Lodenyo Hudson, Hailemariam Tafes (157080), Simon Njoroge, Mutuma Geoffrey, Ndegwa, Serah, Workagegnehu Hailu, Edwards, Tansy, Balasegaram Manica, Tansy Edwards (122527), Eltahir Khalil, Juma Rashid, Olobo, Joseph, Hudson Lodenyo, Apadet Lilian, Sagaki, Patrick, Njoroge, Simon, Robert Kimutai, Sisay Yifru (157068), George Kirigi, Njoroge Simon, Getahun Mengistu (157072), Hailu Asrat, Hudson Lodenyo (157062), Hurissa Zewdu, Ellis Sally, Mueller Marius, Abuzaid, Abuzaid Abdalla, Mutea Dedan, Mucee, Geoffrey, Ahmed, Osama, Owiti Rhoda, Wasunna, Monique, Edwards Tansy, Ahmed Musa, Rashid Juma, Eyasu Makonnen (157087), Ahmed Osama, Osama Ahmed, Lilian Apadet, Yifru, Sisay, Lilian Apadet (157060), Marius Mueller, Monique Wasunna, Yalemtsehay Mekonnen, Mbui, Jane, Simon Njoroge (157052), Workagegnehu Hailu (101983), Sally Ellis, Zewdu Hurissa (101992), Geoffrey Mucee (157047), Joseph Olobo, Josephine Kesusu (157113), Manduku, Veronica, Sally Ellis (157129), Dedan Mutea (157064), Kirigi George, El-Hassan, Ahmed, Hurissa, Zewdu, Mutuma, Geoffrey, Ahmed Fadlalla, Balasegaram, Manica, Wasunna Monique, Fadlalla Ahmed, Asrat Hailu (59005), Mekonnen, Yalemtsehay, Owiti, Rhoda, Ndegwa Serah, Apadet, Lilian, Veronica Manduku (157055), Mengistu Getahun, Weldegebreal, Teklu, Musa Ahmed, Dedan Mutea, Mutea, Dedan, Kimutai Robert, Veronica Manduku, Asrat Hailu, Geoffrey Mutuma, Monique Wasunna (157135), Abuzaid Abdalla Abuzaid, Manduku Veronica, Yalemtsehay Mekonnen (157084), Rhoda Owiti (157121), Josephine Kesusu, Patrick Sagaki, Manica Balasegaram (156987), Jane Mbui (157003), Hailu Workagegnehu, Makonnen Eyasu, Omollo, Raymond, Jane Mbui, Ahmed Fadlalla (157024), Mucee Geoffrey, Mueller, Marius, Lodenyo, Hudson, Getahun Mengistu, Tansy Edwards, Patrick Sagaki (157100), Manica Balasegaram, Khalil, Eltahir, Musa, Brima, Rashid, Juma, Mekonnen Yalemtsehay, Kirigi, George, Eyasu Makonnen, Musa Brima, Serah Ndegwa (157094), Abuzaid Abuzaid Abdalla, Ellis, Sally, Hailu, Asrat   +151 more
core   +1 more source