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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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Effectiveness of dog collars impregnated with 4% deltamethrin in controlling visceral leishmaniasis in Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidade: Phlebotominae) populations

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2018
BACKGROUND There is little information on the effect of using deltamethrin-impregnated dog collars for the control of canine visceral leishmaniasis. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the use of 4% deltamethrin ...
R. A. Silva, A. J. de Andrade, Bruno Beust Quint, Gabriel Elias Salmen Raffoul, G. Werneck, E. F. Rangel, G. Romero   +6 more
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Ultrastructural expansion microscopy reveals unexpected levels of glycosome heterogeneity in African trypanosomes

Journal of Microscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract Kinetoplastid parasites include several species. Trypanosoma brucei causes African sleeping sickness in humans and a wasting disease nagana in livestock. Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease and Leishmania species cause leishmaniasis, which can present with visceral, cutaneous, or mucocutaneous symptoms.
Heidi Anderson, Rhonda Reigers Powell, Meredith Teilhet Morris   +2 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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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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A third generation vaccine for human visceral leishmaniasis and post kala azar dermal leishmaniasis: First-in-human trial of ChAd63-KH

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017
Background Visceral leishmaniasis (VL or kala azar) is the most serious form of human leishmaniasis, responsible for over 20,000 deaths annually, and post kala azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a stigmatizing skin condition that often occurs in ...
Mohamed Osman, Anoop Mistry, A. Keding, R. Gabe, Elizabeth Cook, Sarah Forrester, R. Wiggins, S. Di Marco, S. Colloca, L. Siani, R. Cortese, Deborah F. Smith, T. Aebischer, P. Kaye, C. Lacey   +14 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Potential vectors of Leishmaniases in the Environmental Protection Area and Tinguá Federal Biological Reserve, Municipality of Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
This study was to describe the composition of sand fly fauna, detect potential vectors of Leishmania spp. in the Tinguá district, an ATL endemic, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Seven species of vectorial importance in the epidemiological cycle of leishmaniasis was observed: Nyssomyia intermedia, Migonemyia migonei, Pintomyia fischeri, Psychodopygus hirsutus ...
Antônio L. F. Santana, Alfredo C. R. Azevedo, Margarete M. S. Afonso, Bruno M. Carvalho, Vanessa R. Vieira, Simone M. Costa, Júlia S. Silva, Thais A. Pereira, Daniela P. Pereira, Maurício L. Vilela   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urine as a promising sample for Leishmania DNA extraction in the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis – a review

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019
Visceral leishmaniasis is a serious and debilitating infection with high fatality rate in tropical and subtropical countries. As clinical symptoms of visceral leishmaniasis are not so specific, confirmatory diagnostic methods with high sensitivity and ...
Gilberto Silva Nunes Bezerra, Walter Lins Barbosa, Júnior, Elis Dionísio da Silva, Nilma Cintra Leal, Zulma Maria de Medeiros   +4 more
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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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