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Arginase activity - a marker of disease status in patients with visceral leishmaniasis in ethiopia. [PDF]

, 2013
The underlying mechanisms resulting in the profound immune suppression characteristic of human visceral leishmaniasis (VL) are not fully understood. Here, we tested the hypothesis that arginase, an enzyme associated with immunosuppression, is higher in ...
Corset, C, Cloke Tom, Closs Ellen, Cloke, T, Yifru Sisay, Abebe Tamrat, Corset, M, Modolell, M, Takele, Yegnasew, Corware, Karina, Cloke, Tom, Sisay Yifru, Hailu, Workagegnehu, Munder, M, Tacchini-Cottier, F, Ingrid Müller, Kropf, P, Müller, Ingrid, Markus Munder, Weldegebreal, T, Weldegebreal Teklu, Teklu Weldegebreal, Closs, E, Sisay, Y, Hailu, W, Mueller, I, Pascale Kropf, Camille Corset, Müller Ingrid, Sisay, Yifru, Takele Yegnasew, Closs, Ellen, Karina Corware, Weldegebreal, Teklu, Modolell, Manuel, Corware, K, Asrat Hailu, Corware Karina, Abebe, T, Corset Margaux, Munder, Markus, Manuel Modolell, Hailu Workagegnehu, Hailu, A, Margaux Corset, Modolell Manuel, Workagegnehu Hailu, Kropf Pascale, Abebe, Tamrat, Tacchini-Cottier, Fabienne, Fabienne Tacchini-Cottier, Yegnasew Takele, Kropf, Pascale, Corset Camille, Munder Markus, Tom Cloke, Corset, Margaux, Ellen Closs, Tacchini-Cottier Fabienne, Hailu Asrat, Corset, Camille, Hailu, Asrat, Takele, Y, Tamrat Abebe, Closs, E., Abebe, T., Corset, C., Takele, Y., Sisay, Y., Hailu, A., Müller, I., Weldegebreal, T., Corset, M., Corware, K., Cloke, T., Modolell, M., Munder, M., Kropf, P., Tacchini-Cottier, F., Hailu, W.   +79 more
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Topical insecticides control Leishmania reservoir dogs [PDF]

, 2002
Canids and domestic dogs are reservoir hosts of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (ZVL) caused by Leishmania infantum. Hence, one of the approaches to reduce the incidence of human ZVL is to cull infected dogs (e.g >850 000 dogs are screened per year with ...
Reithinger, R
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A policy for leishmaniasis with respect to the prevention and control of drug resistance. [PDF]

, 2001
At the moment no country has a policy designed to control or prevent drug resistance in leishmaniasis. The risk of resistance is high in areas of anthroponotic visceral leishmaniasis, for example North Bihar, India, where the rate in some areas is 60 ...
Bryceson, A
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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, Sarah, Saleheen, Mohammad, Sami, Ismail, Mayan, Najibullah, Mahboob, Kathy, Fiekert, Annick, Lenglet, Rosalynn, Ord, Richard, Reithinger   +8 more
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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
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Transmission, reservoir hosts and control of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis [PDF]

, 2009
Zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (ZVL) caused by Leishmania infantum is an important disease of humans and dogs. Here we review aspects of the transmission and control of ZVL.
Courtenay, Orin, Quinnell, Rupert J., Quinnell, RJ, Courtenay, O   +3 more
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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
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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
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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
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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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