Tegumentary leishmaniasis
Polymorphism specific PCR enhances the diagnostic performance of American tegumentary leishmaniasis and allows the rapid identification of Leishmania species from Argentina
... American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) is endemic in Argentina with an estimated incidence of 8.76 cases/ year/10 6 inhabitants, calculated from 1984 to 2005 [2]. However, these data might not be accurate ...
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Mucosal Injuries by Tegumentary Leishmaniasis: A Systematic Review
... American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis (ATL) is a polymorphic disease on the skin and/or the mucosa that provokes ulcerated injuries, nodular, unique or multiples, caused by protozoa of the genus ...American ...
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Resistance of Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis and Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensisto nitric oxide correlates with disease severity in Tegumentary Leishmaniasis
... of tegumentary and potentially fatal visceral leishmaniasis ...American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) presents a spectrum of clinical manifestations char- acterized by cutaneous (CL), ...
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Use of PCR in Diagnosis of Human American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
... American tegumentary leishmaniasis is Leishmania (Vian- nia) ...of leishmaniasis and 14 individuals with cutaneous lesions due to other ...of leishmaniasis had negative results by all ...of ...
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Immunologic response and memory T cells in subjects cured of tegumentary leishmaniasis
... Several possibilities may explain the discordant results regarding immunologic response after therapy of leish- maniasis: 1) the kind of antigen used in the assay; 2) if the same antigen was used before and after cure; ...
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Use of Recombinant Antigens for Sensitive Serodiagnosis of American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis Caused by Different Leishmania Species
... American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) (also known as cutaneous leishmaniasis) is characterized by chronic and often latent ...(mucosal leishmaniasis) can arise as the parasites dissem- ...
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Field Validation of SYBR Green and TaqMan Based Real Time PCR Using Biopsy and Swab Samples To Diagnose American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis in an Area Where Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis Is Endemic
... American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) is an essential task due to the disease’s associated ...mucosal leishmaniasis (ML), in which a low parasite quantity is ...
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Proteins Selected in Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis by an Immunoproteomic Approach with Potential Serodiagnosis Applications for Tegumentary Leishmaniasis
... human tegumentary leishmaniasis (TL) presents some problems, such as the low level of antileishmanial antibodies found in most of the patients, as well as the cross-reactivity in subjects infected by other ...
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Insulin like growth factor I serum levels and their biological effects on Leishmania isolates from different clinical forms of American tegumentary leishmaniasis
... of tegumentary leishmaniasis, and IGF-I seemingly exerts effects on both parasite growth likely contributing to its persistence in the skin and its lower level affecting the modulation of inflam- mation and ...
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Ecology, feeding and natural infection by Leishmania spp of phlebotomine sand flies in an area of high incidence of American tegumentary leishmaniasis in the municipality of Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
... of leishmaniasis, which are caused by different protozoan species of the genus Leishmania: visceral leishmananiasis (VL) in which the etiological agent is Leishmania infantum and tegumentary ...
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IFNG +874T/A polymorphism is not associated with American tegumentary leishmaniasis susceptibility but can influence Leishmaniainduced IFN γ production
... American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) is a vector born disease caused in Brazil mainly by Leishmania (Vian- nia) braziliensis, an intracellular ...
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American tegumentary leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis: assessment of parasite genetic variability at intra and inter patient levels
... Our group has recently been applying different molecu- lar tools towards the study of specific diagnostics and the genotypic behaviour of L . ( V .) braziliensis subpopula- tions in patients with mucocutaneous ...
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American tegumentary leishmaniasis diagnosis using L (V ) braziliensis fixed promastigotes: a comparative performance of serological tests and spontaneous cure identification
... In order to improve and innovate flow cytometry assays, this work intended to use anti-fixed Leishmania Viannia braziliensis promastigote IgG antibodies to demonstrate its applicability [r] ...
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An optimized nanoparticle delivery system based on chitosan and chondroitin sulfate molecules reduces the toxicity of amphotericin B and is effective in treating tegumentary leishmaniasis
... Abstract: Amphotericin B (AmpB) is active against leishmaniasis, but its use is hampered due to its high toxicity observed in patients. In this study, a nanoparticles-delivery system for AmpB (NQC-AmpB), ...
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Interleukin 32γ (IL 32γ) is highly expressed in cutaneous and mucosal lesions of American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis patients: association with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and IL 10
... The aim of this study was to evaluate the expression of IL-32 in cutaneous and mucosal lesions as well as in peripheral blood mononuclear cells PBMC exposed to Leishmania Viannia brazili[r] ...
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Incidence of American Tegumentary Leishmaniosis in the Municipality of Rondoland - MT in the Period 2010 to 2018
... Table 2 shows the socio-demographic profile of the patients reported with tegumentary leishmaniasis america in the municipality, with 90.00% (n = 36) being males and 10.00% (n = 4) females. The age groups ...
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Visceral leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania infantum in a Spanish patient in Argentina: What is the origin of the infection? Case report
... of leishmaniasis with visceral symptomatology since ...provinces, tegumentary leishmaniasis (cutaneous, cutaneomucosal and mucosal leishmaniasis) owing to L (Viannia) bra- ziliensis is endemic ...
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Epitope Mapping of the HSP83.1 Protein of Leishmania braziliensis Discloses Novel Targets for Immunodiagnosis of Tegumentary and Visceral Clinical Forms of Leishmaniasis
... Gold standard serological diagnostic methods focus on antigens that elicit a strong humoral immune response that is specific to a certain pathogen. In this study, we used bioinformatics approaches to identify linear ...
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Review of the current treatments for leishmaniases
... and tegumentary forms of leishmaniasis are ...or leishmaniasis recidiva cutis. Visceral leishmaniasis is caused by parasites of the species Leishmania (Leishmania) donovani and ...and ...
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A highly sensitive modified nested PCR to enhance case detection in leishmaniasis
... Current study used a new combination of previously established inner and outer primers and they were ex- amined using modifications to the technique. The results of Mo-STNPCR showed high sensitivity, specificity (each ...
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