A senior microbiologist gives audiences of sister brands, Infection Control Today and Contagion, an insight into leishmaniasis, a potentially fatal disease.
Leishmaniasis is a devastating and significantly under-recognized vector-borne disease causing serious global health burden. The disease is caused by Leishmania , a protozoan kinetoplastid parasite. Though the disease is most prevalent in certain endemic locales, the disease spans 88 countries in the ...
他说,其中两人在关押期间感染了一种叫“利什曼病”的皮肤病。 www.voanews.cn 3. abstract: Kala-azar(commonlyknownasvisceralleishmaniasis),isseriousharmtohumanhealthas aparasiticdisease. 黑热病又称内脏利什曼病,是严重危害人类身体健康的寄生虫病。
Leishmaniasis is a vector-born chronic infectious disease caused by a group of protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania. Whereas most immunocompetent individuals will not develop disease after Leishmania infection, immunosuppression is a well-established risk factor for disease. The most severe form ...
Rising pet travel and climate shifts are bringing the zoonotic tropical disease leishmaniasis closer to home—here’s what North American veterinarians need to know.
Only a small fraction of those infected by parasites causing leishmaniasis will eventually develop the disease. We report a case of exclusive lymph node involvement in leishmaniasis, presenting as localized lymphadenopathies. The diagnosis of lymphatic leishmaniasis was confirmed by the presence of ...
Cutaneousleishmaniasisis a chronic ulcerative, usually self-healing, infection caused by several species ofLeishmania, and is divided into Old World and New World (or American) forms (Fig. 35.1). Local peoples apply many common names to this disease (see below). Depending on the species involve...
Leishmaniasis is a complex disease caused by Leishmania infection, producing variable clinical symptoms, e.g., cutaneous, mucocutaneous, and visceral leishmaniases [1–3]. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) caused, for example, by Leishmania major/L. tropica i
Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by an intracellular protozoa parasite transmitted by the bite of a female sandfly (Phlebotomus species) (see the following images). The clinical spectrum of leishmaniasis ranges from a self-resolving, localized cutaneous