2. Chapter 5 - Leishmaniasis, Visceral (VL) - 2010 Yellow Book | CDC Travelers' Health
Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease found in parts of the tropics, subtropics, and southern Europe. Leishmaniasis has several different forms. This section focuses on visceral leishmaniasis (VL), which affects some of the internal...
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3. Leishmaniasis: MedlinePlus
Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease spread by the bite of infected sand flies. There are several different forms of leishmaniasis. The most common are cutaneous and visceral. The cutaneous type causes skin sores. The visceral type...
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4. Leishmaniasis - Page 2
Human leishmanial infections can result in 2 main forms of disease, cutaneous leishmaniasis and visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar).  The factors determining the form of disease include leishmanial species, geographic location, and immune response ....
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5. Visceral leishmaniasis elimination
Some 60% of cases of visceral leishmaniasis, also known as Kala azar, occur in the Indian subcontinent (in Bangladesh, India and Nepal), mainly among poorest people in rural areas. The remaining cases occur mostly in East Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya a...
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6. Visceral leishmaniasis definition - eMedicineHealth - experts in everyday emergencies, first aid and health information
Visceral leishmaniasis: A chronic and potentially fatal parasitic disease of the viscera (particularly the liver, spleen, bone marrow and lymph nodes) due to infection by Leishmania donovani. Also known as Kala-azar.
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7. AEGiS-I-BASE: Fatal seronegative visceral leishmaniasis in Portuguese patient
The abstract details that on ‘admission, he was pyrexial with heptosplenomegaly. He was thrombocytopenic (58 · 109/mL) and had a mild neutrophilia. CRP was 127 mg/L and albumin was low at 25 g/L. Chest X-ray and bronchoscopy were normal. Stains an...
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8. WHO | Leishmaniasis: background information
Although cutaneous leishmaniasis can be traced back many hundreds of years, one of the first and most important clinical descriptions was made in 1756 by Alexander Russell following an examination of a Turkish patient. The disease, then commonly k...
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9. Recombinant Leishmania Antigens for Serodiagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis -- Passos et al. 12 (10): 1164 -- Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
FIG. 1. A. Levels of anti-rH2A IgG detected in the sera of 9 healthy subjects (HS), 28 individuals with subclinical L. chagasi infection (SC), 37 visceral leishmaniasis patients (VL), and 15 patients with Chagas' disease. The cutoff value was defi...
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10. Leishmaniasis
OTSG Executive Summary - Update - Leishmaniasis Among US Military Personnel in Southwest Asia, 16 Mar 04 OTSG Executive Summary - Update - Leishmaniasis Among US Military Personnel in Southwest Asia, 16 Mar 04
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