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Identification of New Drug Candidates Against \u3cem\u3eBorrelia burgdorferi\u3c/em\u3e Using High-Throughput Screening [PDF]
, 2016 Lyme disease is the most common zoonotic bacterial disease in North America. It is estimated that .300,000 cases per annum are reported in USA alone. A total of 10%–20% of patients who have been treated with antibiotic therapy report the recrudescence of
Babar, Mustafeez Mujtaba +9 more
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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1989 Cinquenta e nove pacientes chagásicos crônicos foram submetidos a xenodiagnósticos e hemocultura concomitantes para isolamento de amostras de Trypanosoma cruzi.
Elisabeth Bronfen +5 more
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Canine Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the Bolivian Chaco [PDF]
, 2018 A cross-sectional study on Trypanosoma cruzi was carried out in 2013 to evaluate the role of dogs as possible source of infection for humans in two rural communities of the highly endemic Bolivian Chaco (Bartolo, Chuquisaca Department, n = 57 dogs; and ...
Bartoloni, Alessandro +9 more
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Quantifying the infectiousness of post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis towards sandflies [PDF]
, 2018 Background In the Indian subcontinent, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) incidence is on track to reach elimination goals by 2020 in nearly all endemic districts.
Alim, Abdul +11 more
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Dog skin parasite load, TLR-2, IL-10 and TNF-α expression and infectiousness [PDF]
, 2017 Visceral leishmaniosis is a zoonotic disease that is transmitted by Lutzomyia longipalpis sandflies. Dogs are the main peri-urban reservoir of the disease, and progression of canine leishmaniosis is dependent on the type of immune response elaborated ...
Avanço, S. V. +14 more
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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1986 Lutzomyia (N.) whitmani foi infectada em lesões leishmanióticas de três de nove cães parasitados por Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis . Os índices de infecção desses flebotomíneos foram 8,3% (1/12), 7,1% (1/14) e 1,8% (3,160), respectivamente.
Julio A. Vexenat +2 more
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Mediators of Inflammation, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019 Dendritic cells (DCs) are a type of antigen‐presenting cells that play an important role in the immune response against Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease. In vitro and in vivo studies have shown that the modulation of these cells by this parasite can directly affect the innate and acquired immune response of the host in order to ...
Cecilia Gomes Barbosa +14 more
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The burden of congenital Chagas disease and implementation of molecular diagnostic tools in Latin America [PDF]
, 2018 It is estimated that between 8000 and 15 000 Trypanosoma cruzi infected babies are born every year to infected mothers in Chagas disease endemic countries. Currently, poor access to and performance of the current diagnostic algorithm, based on microscopy
Cruz, Israel +7 more
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Visceral Leishmaniasis in West Africa: Clinical Characteristics, Vectors, and Reservoirs
Journal of Parasitology Research, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019 Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is the most serious form of human leishmaniasis. VL is understudied in West Africa. The increasing number of patients at‐risk, including persons living with HIV and other chronic immunosuppressive diseases, and likely underreporting of VL related to diagnostic challenges advocate for review of existing data to understand VL ...
Abdoulaye K. Kone +9 more
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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1994 A Leishmania donovani-complex specific DNA probe was usedto confirm the widespread dissemination of amastigotes in apparently normal skinof dogs with canine visceral leishmaniasis.
J. A. Vexenat +11 more
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