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Recent autochthonous cases of leishmaniasis in residents of the Republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019
Eighty years after the last published record of human leishmaniasis from Dagestan, Russian Federation, we report two recent cases which were most probably acquired locally: one case of visceral leishmaniasis in a 2-year old child, and one cutaneous ...
Sergey Andreevich Nagorny, Larisa Alexandrovna Ermakova, Natalia Vladimirovna Golovchenko, Natalia Yurievna Pshenichnaya, Andrey Sergeevich Zhuravlev, Trentina Di Muccio, Luigi Gradoni   +6 more
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Trend of Visceral Leishmaniasis at Medicine Sans Frontier´s Abdurafi Treatment Center, West Armachiho District, Ethiopia, 2009-2015, a retrospective descriptive analysis

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health, 2022
Introduction: Leishmaniasis currently threatens 350 million men, women and children around the world. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a fatal parasitic disease mostly prevalent in low land areas VL typically affects migrant agricultural workers.
Sisay Awoke, Sefonias Getachew, Yimer Seid, Tatek Bogale   +3 more
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Asymptomatic Leishmania donovani infection and associated factors among blood donors attending at Metema district Blood Bank, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross- sectional study

Archives of Public Health, 2023
Background Ethiopia is one of the top 10 countries in the world where 90% visceral leishmaniasis cases are reported. Metema-Humera lowlands are the most important foci in Ethiopia. Blood transfusion in visceral leishmaniasis endemic foci in Ethiopia does
Iyasu Melkie, Mulat Yimer, Getaneh Alemu, Banchamlak Tegegne   +3 more
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Epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis [PDF]

Clinical Epidemiology, 2014
Leishmania species are the causative agents of leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease. These parasitic protozoans are usually transmitted between vertebrate hosts by the bite of blood sucking female phlebotomine sand flies. This review focuses on the two parasites causing most human visceral leishmaniasis (VL), which leads to substantial health ...
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Of cattle, sand flies and men : a systematic review of risk factor analyses for South Asian visceral leishmaniasis and implications for elimination [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Studies performed over the past decade have identified fairly consistent epidemiological patterns of risk factors for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Indian subcontinent.
Courtenay, Orin, Caryn Bern, Bern, Caryn, Alvar, Jorge, Bern Caryn, Alvar Jorge, Courtenay Orin, Jorge Alvar, Orin Courtenay   +8 more
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Microscopy and Polymerase Chain Reaction Detection of Leishmania chagasi in the Pleural and Ascitic Fluid of a Patient with AIDS: Case Report and Review of Diagnosis and Therapy of Visceral Leishmaniasis

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2004
Atypical visceral leishmaniasis is increasingly reported in immunocompromised patients, including patients with AIDS. A case of visceral leishmaniasis in an HIV-infected Brazilian patient with pulmonary and peritoneal involvement is reported ...
Ada RS Diehl, Rodrigo P dos Santos, Ricardo Zimmerman, Letícia P Luz, Tanara Weiss, Pedro Jacobson, Luciano Z Goldani   +6 more
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To determine the sensitivity and specificity of Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis

Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2014
Introduction: Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by a protozoan parasite of the genus Leishmania, which is transmitted through bites of infected sandflies.
MS ANJUM, U ANSARI, F HUSSAIN, N KALSOOM
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Clinical and Immunopathological Aspects of Cutaneous, Mucocutaneous, Visceral, and Post-kala-azar Leishmaniasis

Journal of Zoonotic Diseases, 2023
The disease Leishmaniasis is a neglected illness with two major forms clinically including cutaneous leishmaniasis and visceral leishmaniasis. From almost 100 endemic countries, an estimated one million additional records of leishmaniasis each year are
Basim Saleem Ahmed Al Sulivany, Ahmed Jumaa Ahmed   +1 more
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Effect of insecticide-impregnated dog collars on incidence of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis in Iranian children: a matched-cluster randomised trial.

, 2002
BACKGROUND: Deltamethrin-impregnated dog collars reduce sandfly bite rates on dogs, and are effective in killing sandflies that attempt to feed. Because domestic dogs are the principal reservoir hosts of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis, we tested whether
Gavgani, AS Mazloumi, Hodjati, MH, Davies, CR, Mohite, H   +3 more
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Two Leishmania species circulating in the Kaleybar focus of infantile visceral leishmaniasis, northwest Iran: implications for deltamethrin dog collar intervention

, 2008
Leishmania infantum is the causative agent of infantile visceral leishmaniasis (IVL) in the Mediterranean Basin and, based on isoenzyme typing of a few isolates from patients and domestic dogs, this parasite was considered to predominate in the Kaleybar ...
Ready, P. D. (Paul Donald), Parvizi, P, Mazloumi-Gavgani, A. S., Davies, CR, Ready, PD, Courtenay, Orin, P.D. Ready, P. Parvizi, A.S. Mazloumi-Gavgani, C.R. Davies, Parvizi, P., Courtenay, O, O. Courtenay, Mazloumi-Gavgani, AS, Davies, C. R.   +14 more
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