American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Panama: a historical review of entomological studies on anthropophilic Lutzomyia sand fly species
... of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) in Panama, with emphasis on the bionomics of anthropophilic Lutzomyia sand fly ...in leishmaniasis endemic regions of ...
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Thermotherapy An alternative for the treatment of American cutaneous leishmaniasis
... In the Meglumine antimoniate group, treatment efficacy by protocol and intention-to-treat were 85 and 72%, re- spectively. These results demonstrate a decrease in the rate of efficacy for this age group, which was ...
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Environmental suitability for Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) whitmani (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) and the occurrence of American cutaneous leishmaniasis in Brazil
... For comparative purposes, the images resulting from each model (with continuous values from 0 to 1) were reclassified into five environmental suitability zones: (i) unsuitable zone (UNSZ; value pixel suitability < ...
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Evaluation of PCR for Diagnosis of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in an Area of Endemicity in Northeastern Brazil
... American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is an anthropo- zoonotic disease caused by protozoans of the genus Leishma- nia, which infect the vertebrate host after a bite by infected phlebotomus insects ...
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Renal function evaluation in patients with American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis after specific treatment with pentavalent antimonial
... [5]. American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) is endemic in some countries in Africa, Middle East, Europe and Latin America, represent- ing a Public Health problem, not only due to its high inci- ...
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Immunoblot analysis of Leishmania panamensis antigens in sera of patients with American cutaneous leishmaniasis
... confirmed cutaneous leishmaniasis were studied by immunoblot analysis in order to identify a specific pattern for Leishmania ...with cutaneous leishmaniasis specifically recognized fractions ...
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The compositional landscape of minicircle sequences isolated from active lesions and scars of American cutaneous leishmaniasis
... In this study, we analyzed 56 biopsies from patients with ACL. Twenty-nine biopsies (51.8%) met the diagnostic criteria for ACL described above and were therefore considered to be true cases of ACL and 27 (48.2%) out of ...
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Association between HLA genes and American cutaneous leishmaniasis in endemic regions of Southern Brazil
... immune response to cutaneous lesions and, probably, in the healing process [23]. In the present study, HLA-B*45 was the only allele associated with a trend toward pro- tection from cutaneous lesions. This ...
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Spatial and temporal distribution of American cutaneous leishmaniasis in Acre state, Brazil
... During the study period, the state reported 91% of new cases, 8% of relapses, and 1% of transfers or un- known. About 81% of the cases were of the cutaneous form of the disease, 18% of the mucosal form, and 1% of ...
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Epidemiological profile of patients with tegumentar leishmaniose in underdeveloped country
... South American country with the highest number of cases of American cutaneous leishmaniasis its incidence was about eight times higher in 15 years, going from 4,560 cases in 1980 to 35,748 in ...
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Utility of Western Blot Analysis for the Diagnosis of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
... Serological methods have been commonly used to diagnose visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and considered as a routine method for diag- nosis of VL (11-14). Serological methods have been considered of limited importance ...
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Epidemiological Pattern of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the Province of Fars, Iran (Since 2010-2014)
... . Saghafi pour et al. in Qom province indicated that 49.08% of infection cases were in the hands [24]. In Nazari study Hamadan 50.6% of lesions were also in hands [25]. Ramzani et al. in the city of Aran Bidgol showed ...
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Development and evaluation of a novel LAMP assay for the diagnosis of Cutaneous and Visceral Leishmaniasis
... Development and evaluation of a novel LAMP assay for the diagnosis of Cutaneous and Visceral Leishmaniasis 1 Development and evaluation of a novel LAMP assay for the diagnosis of Cutaneous and Viscera[.] ...
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... of cutaneous disease most of the studies found in literature were of visceral ...had cutaneous lesions on their faces except one who had it on his ...chronic cutaneous leishmaniasis, ...
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Synthesis and in vitro screening of 29, 30-dibromo-28-oxoallobetulin against parasitic protozoans, leishmania donovani and leishmania major
... visceral leishmaniasis and Leishmania major, causative agent of cutaneous leishmaniasis ...visceral leishmaniasis patient very recently, by ...
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INVESTIGATING PHARMACEUTICAL AND THERAPEUTIC PRESCRIPTIONS OF CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS IN DEHLORAN CITY DURING 2015
... of the main reasons for failure of treatment in the local glucantime injection is inadequate infiltration of drug in the lesion 40,41 . The results of study by Naserifar and colleagues (2017) showed in Dehloran city ...
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Synthetic peptide based enzyme linked immunosorbent assay for serodiagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis
... Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala azar, is a severe, often fatal, disease which, having no pathognomonic symptoms, is usually identified clinically as a combination of prolonged unexplained fever, ...
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Leishmania major-Like Antigen for Specific and Sensitive Serodiagnosis of Human and Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis
... with cutaneous leishmaniasis, and specimens from 169 healthy individuals without a history of Chagas’ disease or VL for use as controls were provided by ...diffuse cutaneous leishman- iasis, provided ...
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Vol 24, No 1 (2014)
... The first descriptions of cutaneous leishmaniasis can be traced back to the 9 th century (Balkh sore), but now it is a major world health problem especially in Pakistan. It has now become the most common ...
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Application of qPCR in conjunctival swab samples for the evaluation of canine leishmaniasis in borderline cases or disease relapse and correlation with clinical parameters
... in CS and bone marrow. Furthermore, the usefulness of CS PCR as diagnostic tool has also been confirmed in non-endemic areas [27]. Contextually, the sensitivity and utility of whole blood or buffy coat (BC) in veterinary ...
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