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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 20, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a widespread and resurging vector-borne disease caused by a protozoan parasite belonging to genus Leishmania (1). After Afghanistan, Algeria is the second largest focus of...
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From:BioMed Research International (Vol. 2018) Peer-ReviewedCutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a neglected tropical disease which affects mainly the poorest communities in developing countries. Considering the limited published information on economic impact of CL in Sri Lanka, the...
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From:International Journal of Analytical Chemistry (Vol. 2020) Peer-ReviewedHuman leishmaniasis which is considered a neglected tropical parasitic disease presents in three main clinical forms (i.e., cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL), and visceral leishmaniasis...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedObjective To document the psychosocial burden of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) in rural communities in Southeastern Morocco. Method Between March and April 2015, we conducted qualitative research in communities...
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From:Pediatric Nephrology (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Ozlem Yuksel Aksoy 1 , Adem Yasin Koksoy 2 , Saba Kiremitci 3 , Nilgun Cakar 4 , Fatma Semsa Cayci 5 Author Affiliations: (1) Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Kayseri City Hospital, , Kayseri, Turkey...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedLeishmania mexicana causes localized (LCL) or diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis (DCL). The cause of dissemination in DCL remains unknown, yet NK cells possibly play a role in activating leishmanicidal mechanisms during...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1307)[S] A 43-year-old woman with mucocutaneous leishmaniasis masquerading as Wegener's granulomatosis developed widespread cutaneous dissemination during treatment with cyclophosphamide. The woman had experienced...
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From:Journal of Immunology Research (Vol. 2021) Peer-ReviewedLeishmaniasis is a disease caused by an intracellular protozoan parasite of the genus Leishmania. Current treatments for leishmaniasis are long, toxic, and expensive and are not available in some endemic regions....
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From:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjectives Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a vector-borne parasitic disease whose lasting scars can cause stigmatization and depressive symptoms. It is endemic in remote rural areas and its incidence is under-reported,...
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From:Indian Journal of Dermatology (Vol. 67, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Palanisamy. Jeevanandham, Neelakandhan. Asokan, Betsy. Ambooken, Jini. Valooran Sir, Leishmaniasis is a group of diseases caused by the protozoan parasites belonging to more than 20 species of Leishmania....
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 185, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAn otherwise healthy 42-year-old man presented with a small erythematous nodule on the superior part of his right ear and substantial swelling of the entire pinna (Figure 1A), which he had first noticed 2 weeks before...
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From:Journal of Global Infectious Diseases (Vol. 2, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: Emilio. Palumbo Mucocutaneous is an infection caused by a single celled parasite transmitted by sand fly bites. There are about 20 species of Leishmania that may cause mucocutaneous leishmaniasis. Some...
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From:Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology (Vol. 73, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedByline: M. Kumaresan, Pramod. Kumar Sir, Leishmaniasis is a protozoal infestation caused by several species of the genus Leishmania . The disease, once restricted to certain geographical areas in India, is now...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: In Afghanistan, most cutaneous leishmaniasis cases are caused by Leishmania tropica, which is transmitted anthroponotically by the sandfly Phlebotomus sergenti (1). Cutaneous leishmaniasis can have...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 325, Issue 7368) Peer-ReviewedUsing curtains that contain an insecticide can reduce the risk of an infection of the skin called cutaneous leishmaniasis, according to a study of 2,913 people in Trujillo, Venezuela. This infection is caused by an...
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From:Science (Vol. 244, Issue 4905) Peer-ReviewedReceptor-Mediated Drug Delivery to Macrophages in Chemotherapy of Leishmaniasis LEISHMANIASIS, A PARASITIC DISEASE, is estimated to affect 400,000 to 12 million people worldwide annually. The causative agents of...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 75, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCutaneous leishmaniasis has been endemic in Aleppo, Syria, for generations. Recently there has been a clear increase in the incidence of the disease, and more patients have shown a lack of response to antimonials. We...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 22, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: War, infection, and disease have always made intimate bedfellows, with disease recrudescence characterizing most conflict zones (1). Recently, increasing violence from civil war and terrorist activity in...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Mehdi Bamorovat 1, Iraj Sharifi 1,*, Mohammad Reza Aflatoonian 2, Hamid Sharifi 3, Ali Karamoozian 4, Fatemeh Sharifi 5, Ahmad Khosravi 1, Saeid Hassanzadeh 6 Introduction Leishmaniasis imposes a major...
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From:Journal of Biomedicine and BiotechnologyPeer-ReviewedIn an attempt to investigate the effects of treatment of human leishmaniasis, the cytokines produced by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) and mucocutaneous...