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Visceral Leishmaniasis Treatment, Italy [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2003
First-line drug treatment was recorded in 573 immunocompetent patients with visceral leishmaniasis in Italy. In the past 12 years, the proportion of antimonial treatments decreased from 100% to 2.8%, while the proportion of amphotericin B treatments increased from 0% to 97.2%.
Luigi Gradoni, Marina Gramiccia, Aldo Scalone   +2 more
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A Longstanding Case of Black Grain Mycetoma in a Somalian Male Patient: A Case Report

Clinical Case Reports, Volume 13, Issue 4, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Mycetoma is a chronic granulomatous infection predominantly affecting young individuals, characterized by painless swelling and often misdiagnosed due to its resemblance to other conditions. This case report presents the first documented instance of eumycetoma located in the buttock of a 44‐year‐old male patient from Somalia, a region with ...
Mohamed Adam Mahamud, Mohamed Daffalla Awadalla Gismalla, Shafie Abdulkadir Hassan, Alaa Tajeldeen Habeeb Abdallah, Claude Mambo Muvunyi, Ayman Ahmed, Emmanuel Edwar Siddig   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A case report on para-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis: an unresolved mystery

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2023
Background Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a dermatosis that occurs 2–3 years after an apparently successful treatment of visceral leishmaniasis (VL).
Md. Mehedi Hasan, Sanghita Banik Proma, Md. Saddam Hossain, Md. Arifuzzaman, Naylla Islam, Md. Abu Bakar Siddique, Amiruzzaman   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges in Modeling Complexity of Neglected Tropical Diseases: Assessment of Visceral Leishmaniasis Dynamics in Resource Limited Settings [PDF]

arXiv, 2016
Neglected tropical diseases (NTD), particularly vector-borne diseases (VBD), account for a large proportion of the global disease burden, and their control faces several challenges including diminishing human and financial resources for those distressed from such diseases.
arxiv  

Development of a LAMP assay for detection of Leishmania infantum infection in dogs using conjunctival swab samples [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Leishmania infantum infections in dogs play a crucial role in the transmission of pathogens causing visceral leishmaniasis to humans in the Gansu province, northwest China. To be able to control zoonotic transmission of the parasite to humans,
A Moshfe, A Nasereddin, AF Koutinas, CH Gao, Chun-hua Gao, D Otranto, D Strauss-Ayali, Dan Ding, Dietmar Steverding, ER Adams, F Dantas-Torres, Feng Shi, G Schönian, H Kaneko, H Takagi, J Alvar, J Dereure, JM Lawrie, Jun-yun Wang, JY Wang, JY Wang, JY Wang, K Stuart, L Chamaillé, L He, L Solano-Gallego, LL Poon, LS Leontides, M Chaouch, M Gramiccia, M Paiva Cavalcanti de, MG Khan, N Chargui, N Kuboki, N Singh, P Ciaramella, RS Leite, S Reale, SA Ferreira, T Muccio Di, T Notomi, UG Lopes, WP Kennedy, X Ni, Xia Wang, Y Fichoux le, Y Mori, YM Gomes, Yue-tao Yang   +48 more
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HIV-associated visceral leishmaniasis [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2001
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a severe disease caused by protozoa of the genus Leishmania that usually affects immunocompetent hosts in endemic areas [1,2]. Since the mid-1980s, VL has been recognized as an opportunistic infection associated with some immunodeficiency states, such as neoplasms, organ transplantation, or treatment with ...
Vicente Pintado, R. López-Vélez
openaire   +3 more sources

Identification, Detection, and the Enhanced Removal Mechanism of DDT From Aqueous Solutions Using Facile Green Synthesis of Carbon Quantum Dots

Engineering Reports, Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2025.
Removal of DDT from Aqueous solution using Carbon Quantum Dots. ABSTRACT Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) pollution is an ongoing worldwide environmental hazard due to its persistence and detrimental impact on ecosystems. Carbon quantum dots (CQD) made from dried mushroom biomass using a sustainable and eco‐friendly synthesis process are ...
Sathish Sundararaman, M. Karthikeyan, J. Aravind Kumar, Prabu Deivasigamani, T. R. Praveenkumar, Reya Dash, Prabhu Paramasivam, Abinet Gosaye Ayanie   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leishmaniasis–HIV coinfection: current challenges

HIV/AIDS: Research and Palliative Care, 2016
José Angelo Lauletta Lindoso,1,2 Mirella Alves Cunha,3 Igor Thiago Queiroz,4 Carlos Henrique Valente Moreira2 1Laboratory of Soroepidemiology (LIM HC-FMUSP), São Paulo University, São Paulo, 2Instituto de Infectologia Emilio ...
Lindoso JAL, Cunha MA, Queiroz IT, Moreira CHV   +3 more
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Epidemiological aspects of human and canine visceral leishmaniasis in State of Alagoas, Northeast, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2018
Zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (ZVL), caused by protozoans of the genus Leishmania, it is a worldwide of great importance disease. In the northeast region of Brazil, the state of Alagoas has an endemic status for ZVL.
M. A. N. Rocha, T. J. Matos-Rocha, C. M. B. Ribeiro, S. R. O. Abreu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Insights on adaptive and innate immunity in canine leishmaniosis [PDF]

, 2016
Canine leishmaniosis (CanL) is caused by the parasite Leishmania infantum and is a systemic disease, which can present with variable clinical signs, and clinicopathological abnormalities.
Abi Abdallah, Alexander, Catchpole, DAMER P. BLAKE, de Souza Carmo, Green, Kensil, LAIA SOLANO-GALLEGO, Lopez, Margarito, Ordeix, Pinelli, Pitta, Quinnell, Sadick, Sanchez, SHAZIA HOSEIN, Silva, Vouldoukis, Wakelin   +19 more
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