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The recombinant cysteine proteinase B (CPB) from Leishmania braziliensis and its domains: promising antigens for serodiagnosis of cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis in dogs. [PDF]

, 2019
Leishmaniasis represents a group of parasitic diseases caused by a protozoan of the genus Leishmania and is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions.
Basombrío, Manuel Alberto, Bivona, Augusto Ernesto, Cardoso Landaburu, Alejandro Cesar, Cazorla, Silvia Ines, Cerny, Natacha, Czentner Colomo, Lucas, Estevez, José Octavio, Malchiodi, Emilio Luis, Marco, Jorge Diego, Nevot, María Cecilia, Sanchez Alberti, Andrés   +10 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, A. Cordeiro-da-Silva, F. Dantas‑Torres, G. Miró   +3 more
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Cyclin-dependent kinase 12, a novel drug target for visceral leishmaniasis

Nature, 2018
Visceral leishmaniasis causes considerable mortality and morbidity in many parts of the world. There is an urgent need for the development of new, effective treatments for this disease.
S. Wyllie, Michael G. Thomas, Stephen Patterson, Sabrinia D Crouch, M. De Rycker, R. Lowe, S. Gresham, Michael D. Urbaniak, T. Otto, L. Stojanovski, Frederick R. C. Simeons, Sujatha Manthri, Lorna M MacLean, F. Zuccotto, Nadine Homeyer, H. Pflaumer, Markus Boesche, Lalitha Sastry, P. Connolly, S. Albrecht, M. Berriman, G. Drewes, David W. Gray, S. Ghidelli-Disse, S. Dixon, J. Fiandor, P. Wyatt, M. Ferguson, A. Fairlamb, T. Miles, K. Read, I. Gilbert   +31 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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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
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Potential animal reservoirs (dogs and bats) of human visceral leishmaniasis due to Leishmania infantum in French Guiana

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
In French Guiana, cutaneous leishmaniasis is highly endemic, whereas no autochthonous case of visceral leishmaniasis have been reported so far. However, due to its proximity to Brazil which is highly endemic for visceral leishmaniasis, and the high ...
H. Medkour, B. Davoust, F. Dulieu, L. Maurizi, Thierry Lamour, J. Marié, O. Mediannikov   +6 more
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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
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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
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Increasing incidence of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis on Crete, Greece [PDF]

, 2009
To determine whether the incidence of canine leishmaniasis has increased on Crete, Greece, we fitted infection models to serodiagnostic records of 8,848 dog samples for 1990–2006.
Adler, Andrew J. Sutton, Connor Carson, Courtenay, Courtenay, Hadjinicolaou, Hertig, Ioanna Ascoksilaki, Ippokratis Messaritakis, Ivovic, Leger, Leger, Leger, Maria Antoniou, Nikos Kanavakis, Orin Courtenay, Quinnell, Sutton, Vasiliki Christodoulou, Williams   +19 more
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Current and promising novel drug candidates against visceral leishmaniasis

Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2019
Leishmaniasis is a group of zoonotic diseases caused by a trypanosomatid parasite mostly in impoverished populations of low-income countries. In their different forms, leishmaniasis is prevalent in more than 98 countries all over the world and ...
Rosa M. Reguera, Y. Pérez-Pertejo, C. Gutiérrez-Corbo, Bárbara Domínguez-Asenjo, C. Ordóñez, C. García-Estrada, M. Martínez-Valladares, R. Balaña-Fouce   +7 more
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