Leishmaniasis is a protozoan disease that is transmitted by Phlebotomine sandflies. This group of diseases is endemic to the tropics and sub-tropics and has a wide variety of clinical manifestations ranging from small cutaneous nodules and mucosal tissue destruction to systemic affects such as ...
Endemic Disease: A disease that isendemicis one that can always be found within a population that lives in a region, though not necessarily at a high rate. For example, malarias is endemic to many of the world's tropical regions because it is always present in the population because the ...
infantum-endemic areas. There is thus an urgent need to conduct more ambitious studies on the environmental, clinical, parasitic, genetic and immunological predictors of VL in L. donovani-endemic areas (East Africa and the Indian subcontinent). VL control strategies ...
Cutaneous leishmaniasis is endemic in certain tropical and sub-tropical regions, and is sometimes encountered as an imported disease in Norway. The disease is characterized by chronic and painless, but often disfiguring, ulcers that regress after some months to years, leaving atrophic scars. Diagnosis...
to thegenusLeishmania(orderKinetoplastida and family Trypanasomatidae). It is endemic to geographically distinct areas of Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Northern Africa, South-eastern Mexico, and other parts of South America. Annually 2 million cases worldwide are estimated to rise across 98 ...
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) is a parasitic vector-borne disease that is well known in the world. WHO stated that Leishmaniasis is endemic in 88 countries with 1.5 to 2 million new cases each year (WHO 1984, 1990). In Morocco, Leishmaniasis represents a serious health problem. It recognises...
maniasis is endemic Home sweet home: sand flies find a refuge in remote indigenous villages in north-eastern Brazil, where leishmaniasis is endemicHome sweet home: sand flies find a refuge in remote indigenous villages in north-eastern Brazil, where leishmaniasis is endemicCutaneous leishmaniasis...
Background: Zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis is endemic in the Mediterranean Basin, where the dog is the main reservoir host. The disease's causative agent,... Nienke,Hartemink,Sophie,... - 《Plos One》 被引量: 225发表: 2011年 Management of trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis. The current treatm...
Although traditionally mostly confined to the endemic areas of Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, cutaneous leishmaniasis is increasingly seen in clinical practices in the Northern hemisphere due to the consequences of tourism and armed conflict. It is a group of diseases with...
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