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This observational study reviews cases of endemic human leishmaniasis occurring in the United States, mostly in Texas, over a 10-year period.
97 Also, new clinical manifestations of Leishmania tropica continue to be discovered, such as the finding of a viscerotropic form of Leishmania tropica identified in veterans of the Persian Gulf War,64 the growing recognition of an endemic cutaneous form of Leishmania infantum in southwestern ...
Visceral leishmaniasis, usually due to Leishmania donovani, has received increasing attention in the United States because of the growing number of cases seen in AIDS patients and the occurrence of viscerotropic L. tropica disease among Persian Gulf war participants. Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a ...
Their bites might not be noticed (the bites can be painless or painful). Sand flies usually are most active in twilight, evening, and night-time hours (from dusk to dawn). Although sand flies are less active during the hottest time of the day, they may bite if they are disturbed (for...
Leishmaniasis is a parasitic infection transmitted in North America by the bite of female Phlebotomus sandflies in the genusLutzomyia, which are restricted to warm tropical areas, predominantly in Central and South America, as well as in the southernmost United States, such as Texas. ...
Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by kinetoplastid protozoan parasites belonging to the Leishmania genus. Infection causes a wide diversity of clinical manifestations, ranging in severity from asymptomatic infections, self-healing cuta
American leishmaniasis - a form of leishmaniasis endemic in Mexico and Central American and South America; sores are limited to the skin and mucosa leishmaniasis americana, mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, nasopharyngeal leishmaniasis, New World leishmaniasis kala azar, leishmaniasis, leishmaniosis - sores ...
PAHO/WHO IRIS | Epidemiology of brucellosis in the United States of North America - The reported cases of Brucella infection in man in U.S.A. have increased from 60 in 1927 to over 6, 000 in 1947. The study of the latter series of cases at... JH Steele,D Bruce 被引量: 1发表: ...
Cases in the United States and Europe usually occur in travelers or immigrants from these endemic areas. In fact, due to the increasing popularity of "adventure travel" and "ecotourism" in Central and South America, new cases of leishmaniasis are on the rise in the U.S. Given the general...