1. Body mass index : Information
A good way to determine if your weight is healthy for your height is to calculate your body mass index (BMI). Being overweight puts strain on your heart and can lead to serious health problems. These problems include:
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2. Leishmaniasis : Visceral leishmaniasis
This type of leishmaniasis occurs India, China, the southern region of Russia, and throughout Africa, the Mediterranean, and South and Central America. It is frequently called Kala-Azar or Dumdum fever. In this disease, the protozoa uses the blood...
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3. 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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4. 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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Scenario : Ellen is a 48 year old professional woman who lives and works in Hartford, Connecticut. She has four adult children and two grandchildren. She also has two aging parents who live nearby and who, though they have been active all their li...
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6. 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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7. 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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The Zebrafish Gene Collection (ZGC) is an NIH initiative that supports the production of cDNA libraries, clones and sequences to provide a complete set of full-length (open reading frame) sequences and cDNA clones of expressed genes for zebrafish....
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The Xenopus Gene Collection (XGC) is an NIH initiative that supports the production of cDNA libraries, clones and 5'/3' sequences to provide a set of full-length (open reading frame) sequences and cDNA clones of expressed genes for Xenopus laevis ...
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