Kala azar
Kala-Azar Imported into the USA
... Kala-azar, or visceral leishmaniasis, is not an indigenous disease in the United States. Prior to 1945, only nine cases had been reported in.. this country.1 Several reports following Wo[r] ...
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Post kala azar dermal leishmaniasis and leprosy: case report and literature review
... Bp: Base pair; ENL: Erythema nodosum leprosum; HAART: Highly active antiretroviral therapy; HIV: Human immundeficiency virus; ITS1-PCR: Internal Transcribed Spacer 1 target DNA for PCR; ITS1-RFLP: PCR amplification of ...
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How do health care providers deal with kala-azar in the Indian subcontinent?
... Table III shows the providers’ knowledge and practice related to kala-azar treatment. Knowledge of drugs varied strikingly. Miltefosin was known by 2.0 per cent of providers in Vaishali, 27.2 per cent in ...
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Study of house level risk factors associated in the transmission of Indian Kala azar
... for Kala-azar, and specifically to identify house-level risk factors for ...of Kala-azar endemic and non-endemic region, and (iii) use of non-endemic region for positive control services, in a ...
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Using focused pharmacovigilance for ensuring patient safety against antileishmanial drugs in Bangladesh’s National Kala-azar Elimination Programme
... Kanta Kala-azar Research Center (SKKRC) in Mymensingh District which is the only specialized center for management of complicated VL and PKDL, treatment failure, relapse VL and cutaneous leishman- iasis ...
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Predicting Kala-Azar Disease Manifestations in Asymptomatic Patients with Latent Leishmania donovani Infection by Detection of Antibody against Recombinant K39 Antigen
... resuspended in equal volume of latex beads (0.9-m diameter) (Sigma manual, Sigma Chemical Co.). The suspension was incubated for 2 h at room tempera- ture, followed by addition of an equal volume of GBS–0.1% bovine ...
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Prevalence of kala azar infection in Pokot county, Amudat district, Northeastern Uganda
... Symptomatic cases were defined as persons with (a) DAT titer of ≥ 1:1600 dilutions with fever for ≥ 2 weeks not responding to usual treatment for malaria and/or the common ailments and either splenomegaly or evidence of ...
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Diagnosis of Kala Azar by Nested PCR Based on Amplification of the Leishmania Mini Exon Gene
... Clinical samples. Samples were collected from 22 patients from two areas of endemicity, Kashi and Bachu in Kashi Prefecture in the Xinjiang-Uigur Auton- omous Region of northwestern China. Bachu is located in the desert ...
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Study Of Socio Economic Conditions Of Various Endemic Areas Of Bihar With Respect To Kala Azar In India
... azar i.e. Visceral Leishmaniasis has been found to be a big social problem among cure of this disease is very costly and due to this, the death rate has been found to be very high especially among the poor ...
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Identification of Clinical Immunological Determinants in Asymptomatic VL and Post Kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis Patients
... isceral leishmaniasis (VL) is commonly known as kala-azar in Bihar State, India. The disease is transmitted to humans by the bite of the infected Phlebotomine sandfly (1). The Leishmania donovani parasite ...
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Enhanced case detection and improved diagnosis of PKDL in a Kala-azar-endemic area of Bangladesh.
... Post-kala-azar dermal leishmanisis (PKDL), is a skin disorder, usually develops in 10–20% and about 60% of patients with visceral leishmaniasis (VL)/kala-azar after treatment, respectively, in ...
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Spatial and temporal variation and hotspot detection of kala azar disease in Vaishali district (Bihar), India
... the highest value of Moran’s I statistics. The tracking ana- lysis of the disease shows a cluster pattern in western and southern part of the study area. It may be due to the fact that the population of this region has ...
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Congenital Transmission of Visceral Leishmaniasis (Kala Azar) From an Asymptomatic Mother to Her Child
... seems to be identical in congenital transmitted and otherwise acquired kala azar. Most of the children developed the disease in the first year of life. How- ever, in congenital cases the route of ...
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Further studies on the phlebotomine sandflies of the kala azar endemic lowlands of Humera Metema (north west Ethiopia) with observations on their natural blood meal sources
... Further studies on the phlebotomine sandflies of the kala-azar endemic lowlands of HumeraMetema north-west Ethiopia with observations on their natural blood meal sources Teshome Gebre-Mi[r] ...
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Insights into the possible role of IFNG and IFNGR1 in Kala azar and Post Kala azar Dermal Leishmaniasis in Sudanese patients
... Post Kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a compli- cation of treatment for patients with visceral leishmaniasis (VL) caused by Leishmania donovani and results in the presence of multiple hypopigmented ...
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REVIEW ON DIAGNOSTIC METHOD AND TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR KALA AZAR IN INDIA
... Pentamidine: To circumvent the problem of clinical resistance to antimony in India, pentamidine has been tried for the treatment of VL and was the first drug to be used for patient refractory to Sb [25]. The pentamidine ...
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Performance of kala-azar surveillance in Gaffargaon subdistrict of Mymensingh, Bangladesh
... the kala-azar cases arising in Gaffargaon sub-district, a highly endemic area within Mymensingh district, were recorded in the upazila health complex ...of kala-azar cases reported to the ...
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Potential role for interleukin 10 in the immunosuppression associated with kala azar
... acute kala azar, from patients after chemotherapy for kala azar, and from skin test-positive adults from the same endemic ...acute kala azar demonstrated release of IL-10 that ...
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Development of a Species Specific PCR Assay for Detection of Leishmania donovani in Clinical Samples from Patients with Kala Azar and Post Kala Azar Dermal Leishmaniasis
... or kala-azar (KA), which is a sig- nificant infectious disease in the developing world and of late in the developed world because of increased international travel and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ...
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Interest in paromomycin for the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar)
... Abstract: Leishmaniasis is an important vector-borne disease, and it is classified as one of the most important tropical fly-borne infections. This disease can cause two types of clinical manifestations: cutaneous forms ...
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