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| | Childhood leishmaniasis: Report of 106 cases |
 | | Through the analysis of a monocentric study concerned with childhood leishmaniasis, we aim to describe the epidemio-clinical profile, therapeutic characteristics, and outcome data of this dermatosis. | | | We undertook a single-center retrospective analysis of childhood leishmaniasis in order to describe epidemio-clinical profile, therapeutic characteristics and clinical outcomes of affected patients. | | | Hyperpigmented scars were seen in 26.3 percent of the patients, milium grains in 7.01 percent, atrophic scars in 3.5 percent, and hypopigmented scars in 3.5 percent. |
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| | Leishmaniasis, An Overview |
| | Ultimately, the veterinary practitioner is faced with the dilemma of treating symptomatic outbreaks of leishmaniasis in dogs at the risk of developing drug resistant strains of this parasite within the United States. | | | Due to a number of factors, treatment options for leishmaniasis in dogs and response to therapy are limited at best. | | | For some undefined reason, visceral leishmaniasis is more difficult to treat in dogs than in humans. |
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| | Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis (DCL) is characterized by non-ulcerating nodules over the entire body, resembling lepromatous leprosy and is usually associated with L. | | | The organism is present in histopathologic studies of slit skin smears or in cultures - though neither is highly reliable. | | | Davidson, R.N. Practical guide for the treatment of leishmaniasis. |
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| | Hunters hounded as leishmaniasis is diagnosed in Foxhounds - June 15, 2000 |
| | Treatment of visceral leishmaniasis in dogs is often not as effective as it is in humans. | | | They have become the prey of leishmaniasis, a disease that can be deadly to dogs. | | | For further information about canine visceral leishmaniasis, contact Dr. Peter Schantz, e-mail, pms1@cdc.gov or Tom Navin, MD, e-mail, trn1@cdc.gov, at the Parasitic Diseases Epidemiology Branch, DPD, NCID, CDC, phone, (770) 488-7760. |
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| | CANINE LEISHMANIASIS |
| | Leishmaniasis is a fatal disease for the dog if not treated. | | | The phlebotome absorbs leishmania when pumping the blood of a parasited dog, and it can retransmit them to another dog one or two weeks after the infecting meal. | | | Most often, the loss of temporal muscles gives him the air of an old dog. |
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http://www.petngarden.com/dogs/dogs39.php
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| | Leishmaniasis |
| | Individual with light-colored skin take on a darker, grayish skin tone, particularly of their face and hands. | | | Hashim, Faisal A. "Neurologic Changes in Visceral Leishmaniasis." The Journal of the American Medical Association" 274 (5 July 1995): 6E. | | | When these types of drugs do not work, other medications with anti-protozoal activity are utilized, including amphotericin B, pentamidine, flagyl, and allopurinol. |
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http://www.rwjhamilton.org/Atoz/ency/leishmaniasis.asp
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| | eMedicine - Leishmaniasis : Article by Conjivaram Vidyashankar, MD |
| | Cutaneous leishmaniasis occurs mainly in 2 forms, oriental sore caused by L tropica and American cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by L brasiliensis. | | | The leishmanin skin is negative during active visceral leishmaniasis and usually becomes positive only after successful therapy. | | | Sharing of needles by intravenous drug users can spread not only HIV but also leishmaniasis. |
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| | eMedicine - Leishmaniasis : Article by Renee Hsia, MD |
| | Although cutaneous leishmaniasis can heal on its own, early lesions can also be treated with physical measures, such as local cryotherapy, heat therapy, electrocoagulation, or surgical removal. | | | New research is being done on using PCR to detect clinically occult visceral leishmaniasis. | | | Berman JD: Human leishmaniasis: clinical, diagnostic, and chemotherapeutic developments in the last 10 years. |
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| | American Family Physician: Cutaneous leishmaniasis: recognition and treatment |
| | Although the incidence of leishmaniasis is greater in the Old World than in the New World, the U.S. traveler is most likely to contract this disease in Latin America. | | | This article focuses on cutaneous leishmaniasis, the more common form of the disease. | | | Sandflies are found around human habitations and breed in specific organic wastes such as feces, manure, rodent burrows, and leaf litter. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3225/is_6_69/ai_114608451
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| | Leishmaniasis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis - this form produces widespread skin lesions which resemble leprosy and is particularly difficult to treat. | | | Cutaneous leishmaniasis - the most common form which causes numerous sores on the body, which heal within a few months leaving unpleasant looking scars. | | | The symptoms of leishmaniasis are skin sores which erupt weeks to months after the person affected is bitten by sand flies. |
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| | Leishmaniasis research - KIT Biomedical Research - KIT (Royal Tropical Institute) |
| | In this case the parasite is confined to the skin where it causes one or more slow-healing sores (oriental sore, Aleppo boil). | | | During a study in the Sudan, it was proved that the PCR is more sensitive than traditional microscopic methods and is especially useful for the confirmation of: | | | Specific courses aimed at the practical use of these techniques can be offered. |
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http://www.kit.nl/biomedical_research/html/leishmaniasis.asp
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| | Leishmaniasis: new approaches to disease control -- Davies et al. 326 (7385): 377 -- BMJ |
| | and evidence that the incidence of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis | | | Trials with paromomycin ointments indicate considerable potential for treating cutaneous leishmaniasis (box 2). | | | Osman OF, Kager PA, Oskam L. Leishmaniasis in the Sudan: a literature review with emphasis on clinical aspects. |
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http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/326/7385/377
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| | Medmicro Chapter 82 |
| | The same insecticides and drugs that work for cutaneous leishmaniasis are used for visceral leishmaniasis. | | | This form of leishmaniasis consists of skin or mucosal lesions, which are frequently ulcerated. | | | Control is as with cutaneous leishmaniasis; pentamidine and antimonials are used in treatment. |
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http://gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook/ch082.htm
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| | Leishmaniasis - HIV and Leishmaniasis |
| | However, since then, almost 80 percent of the cases have been in immunodepressed patients, 60 percent of them being HIV positive (Paredes, 1997). | | | Below is a summary of several other problems that are associated with Leismaniasis and HIV coninfection. | | | This is alarming as it means that Leishmaniasis/HIV coinfection will lead to quicker immune deterioration by the HIV virus (Wolday, 1998). |
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http://www.brown.edu/Courses/Bio_160/Projects2000/Leishmaniasis/HIV.html
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| | Ear, Nose & Throat Journal: A case of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis - Original Article - Brief Article |
| | It is our hope that otolaryngologists will keep leishmaniasis in mind when examining lesions of the nasal mucosa, especially as the world continues toward globalization of its peoples. | | | This is particularly important when we examine patients with nasal obstruction and serous and crusted rhinorrhea who have a travel history to other countries, especially South America and the Middle East. | | | Left untreated, mucocutaneous leishmaniasis leads to malnutrition and acute respiratory insufficiency, which are the two primary causes of death in fatal cases. |
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Leishmaniasis |
| | There are no preventive vaccines or drugs for leishmaniasis. | | | Calling your health care provider Return to top | | | Antimony-containing compounds are the principal medications used to treat leishmaniasis. |
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| | Development of a new, safe, effective and inexpensive drug that can cure visceral leishmaniasis throughout the world. | | | The clinical trial will conclude in November 2004 and OneWorld Health will submit an application for approval to the Indian regulatory agency in 2005. | | | OneWorld Health is developing the antibiotic paromomycin as a new cure for visceral leishmaniasis. |
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| | MedlinePlus: Leishmaniasis |
| | The primary NIH organization for research on Leishmaniasis is the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | | | Component of Fly Saliva Makes Promising Leishmaniasis Vaccine (08/06/2001, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) | | | Leishmaniasis Diagnostic Services (Dept. of Defense, Deployment Health Clinical Center) - Links to PDF |
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| | Dramatic reduction in leishmaniasis possible - WHO |
| | The most common type is urban, or anthroponotic, meaning it is transmitted from humans to humans, while rural, or zoonotic, leishmanisis stems from the interaction of humans with rodents. | | | Known locally as saldana, or one-year sore, leishmaniasis is linked to poor social conditions - particularly lack of hygiene and poor waste disposal. | | | Without immediate action, the current leishmaniasis prevalance rate threatens to escalate into an uncontrollable health problem. |
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| | leishmaniasis -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The chief health problems are typhoid, leishmaniasis, rabies, meningitis, and schistosomiasis (a parasitic infestation of the liver or intestines). | | | Leishmaniasis occurs worldwide but is especially prevalent in tropical areas. | | | Leishmaniasis is caused by various species of the flagellate protozoan Leishmania, of the order Kinetoplastida. |
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| | T cell's memory may offer long-term immunity to leishmaniasis |
| | Funding for this research was provided through grants from the National Institutes of Health | | | Their findings encourage a new approach to creating a vaccine against leishmaniasis and other immune cell mediated diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. | | | Particularly vexing to researchers has been the fact that while people who recover from leishmaniasis generally develop lifelong immunity to reinfection, this has been thought to depend upon the continued presence of the Leishmania parasite. |
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| | Leishmaniasis Links on the Internet |
| | Leishmaniasis in the Dog -- What you can do : http://www.showdogsupersite.com/leishmaniasis.html | | | Leishmaniasis - The disease and its impacts: http://www.who.int/emc/diseases/leish/leisdis1.html | | | Diagnostic methods for the detection of leishmaniasis: http://www.kit.nl/biomedical_research//html/body_leishmaniasis.asp |
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| | Leishmaniasis: New Approaches to Disease Control (Journal Article) | | | Army Policy for Diagnosis and Treatment of Leishmaniasis (23 December 2002) | | | Magazine Article: "They came From Beneath the Sand" (PS, Preventive Maintenance Monthly magazine, Issue 631, June 2005, PP. |
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| | Localized mucosal leishmaniasis due to Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum clinical and microbiologic findings in 31 patients. | | | Visceral Leishmaniasis in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Infected and Non-HIV-Infected Patients. | | | The more serious, called kala-azar or visceral leishmaniasis, affects the internal organs, causing fever, anemia, splenomegaly, and discoloration of the skin. |
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| | Leishmaniasis - Boston College |
| | Additional anti-protozoal drugs are being tested for the treatment of leishmaniasis, including drugs that can be taken orally. | | | Drugs used to treat leishmaniasis include pentavalent antimony compounds such as sodium stibogluconate and meglumine antimoniate, as well as pentamidine isethionate and amphotericin B. Each of these medicines is given intravenously or intramuscularly, or is injected into the regions of individual sores. | | | Cutaneous leishmaniasis, which newly afflicts 1.5 million people globally, causes sores on the skin, which can be disfiguring. |
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| | Use of allopurinol to treat visceral leishmaniasis in a dog. | | | Visceral leishmaniasis in renal transplant recipients: successful treatment with liposomal amphotericin B (AmBisome). | | | Prevalence of Leishmania infantum infection in dogs living in an area of canine leishmaniasis endemicity using PCR on several tissues and serology. |
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| | Knowledge of leishmaniasis is important to the clinician since infections can cause clinical disease in dogs and cats and because these animals are reservoirs for the organism in some locations. | | | It should be remembered that leishmaniasis is a public health concern (zoonotic) and care should be taken in both handling and treating canine cases. | | | Most clinicians feel that the dog never will eliminate the infection and that retreatment will be necessary. |
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| | ETIOLOGY LEISHMANIASIS IN DOGS NSEP 2002 |
| | The visceral form of the disease is chronic and progressive and affects various organs, including spleen, liver, bone marrow, lymph nodes and skin. | | | Visceral leishmaniasis in humans is known as kala-azar,,which means lethal disease in Hindu. | | | After inoculation in mammalian hosts, the infective promastigote attaches to macrophages through different cellular receptors, and it is then localized into a vacuole which fuses with lysosomes The parasite survives phagocytosis and undergoes different metabolic transformations, becoming amastigote forms, which lyse the host cells and then infect other phagocytic mononuclear cells. |
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| | [Frontiers in Bioscience 3, d1171-1180, November 15, 1998] |
| | Cutaneous leishmaniasis can manifest itself as a single lesion that may or may not resolve or, alternatively, it may disseminate throughout the skin resulting in multiple cuticular lesions, which is then referred to as disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis. | | | Infections with some Leishmania species result in visceral leishmaniasis (Kala-azar), which is characterized by an infection that spreads internally to involve cells of the reticulo-endothelium system (primarily the liver, spleen and bone marrow). | | | Alternatively, the Leishmania organisms may remain and multiply within the skin causing cutaneous leishmaniasis. |
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| | Leishmaniasis and the Immune System |
| | The fact that the immunological response plays an important role in controling cutaneous leishmaniasis, indicates that vaccination is possible. | | | Only the cutaneous form of leishmaniasis is self-curing. | | | This indicates that it is possible to develop a certain degree of immunity against the parasite, resulting in healing of the ulcers. |
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| | Vol.35 No.4--LEISHMANIASIS: ESTUDIO EPIDEMIOLOGICO PRELIMINAR EN UNA LOCALIDAD DE LA ZONA ENDEMICA DEL ESTADO DE TABASCO |
| | A preliminary epidemiologic study of Leishmaniasis in an endemic zone locality in Tabasco State. | | | Moreover, 3 patients with active lesions and people with scars suggestive of prior leishmaniasis were detected during the study. | | | The objective of the present study was to obtain reliable information of the situation of this disease -which has a great relevance as a worldwide public health problem- through determination of the allergic index in a randomized sample from Rancheria Miguel Hidalgo, Comalcalco Municipality, Tabasco, Mexico. |
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| | The Leishmaniasis in general |
| | visceral leishmaniasis, these are the two major clinical types of leishmaniasis (WHO www site, 1997). | | | In the Mediterranean basin 1.5-9% of AIDS patients develop visceral leishmaniasis and 25-70% of the adult VL cases are related to HIV infection. | | | Both of these physicians separately but simultaneously demonstrated parasites in stained smears from the spleen of patients suffering from a malaria-like illness, which became known as visceral leishmaniasis and its causative agent was named Leishmania donovani. |
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| | Leishmania sp. (leishmaniasis) |
| | This results in a "cutaneous leishmaniasis" (oriental sore, Jericho boil, Aleppo boil, or Dehli boil) that often heals spontaneously (view geographic distribution). | | | The symptoms and pathology associated with leishmaniasis result from the amastigotes killing the host's cells. | | | In other instances the amastigotes may spread to the visceral organs (liver, spleen), resulting in "visceral leishmaniasis" (kala-azar or Dum-Dum fever) (view geographic distribution) or to the mucous membranes of the mouth and nose, resulting in "mucocutaneous leishmaniasis" (espundia or uta). |
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| | Leishmaniasis |
| | The treatment is identical to that of visceral leishmaniasis, but may be local or general, depending on the case. | | | Clinical manifestations range from cutaneous forms, with a single ulcerating granulomatous autoimmunizing skin lesion that heals spontaneously within a year but leaves a lifelong scar, to extensive mucocutaneous forms that can be very debilitating when located on the face. | | | Leishmaniasis are a group of parasitoses due to several species of protozoa of the genus Leishmania and transmitted via insects (phlebotomine sandflies). |
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| | MDTravel Health - Leishmaniasis |
| | Leishmaniasis (life cycle, geographic distribution, clinical features, diagnosis) | | | Urbanization: an increasing risk factor for Leishmaniasis (PDF) | | | The key to prevention is insect protection measures, which are essentially the same as those outlined for mosquitoes, except that netting must be finer-mesh (at least 18 holes to the linear inch) since sandflies are smaller. |
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| | WHO Leishmaniasis |
| | MeSH scope note: A disease caused by any of a number of species of protozoa in the genus LEISHMANIA. | | | - Leishmaniasis (Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, TDR) | | | There are four major clinical types of this infection: cutaneous (Old and New World) (LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS), diffuse cutaneous (LEISHMANIASIS, DIFFUSE CUTANEOUS), mucocutaneous (LEISHMANIASIS, MUCOCUTANEOUS), and visceral (LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL). |
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| | cutaneous leishmaniasis from On-line Medical Dictionary |
| | Two distinctive clinical and epidemiological diseases are recognised, the more common and widespread zoonotic rural disease with a moist acute form, caused by L. Major, with reservoir rodent hosts; and an urban, anthroponotic, dry, chronic form of leishmaniasis caused by leishmaniasis tropica, without a reservoir host, and now largely controlled. | | | Published at the Centre for Cancer Education, University of Newcastle upon Tyne | | | Previous: cutaneous horn, cutaneous larva migrans, cutaneous layer of tympanic membrane |
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| | Leishmaniasis kan behandles, men behandling er en specialistopgave. | | | Leishmaniasis skyldes infektion med en encellet parasit (protozo): Leishmania, hvoraf der findes flere typer forskellige steder i verden. | | | Der ses omkring ét tilfælde af visceral leishmaniasis hvert andet år, og et par tilfælde af kutan leishmaniasis årligt, men oplysningerne er usikre, da sygdommen ikke er anmeldelsespligtig. |
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