Kala-azar
Appraisal of Phlebotomus argentipes habitat suitability using a remotely sensed index in the kala-azar endemic focus of Bihar, India
... Visceral leishmaniasis, or kala-azar, is recognised as a serious emerging public health problem in India. In this study, environmental parameters, such as land surface temperature (LST) and renormalised ...
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INCREASED NATURAL KILLER ACTIVITY DOES NOT PREVENT PROGRESSION OF EXPERIMENTAL KALA-AZAR
... Kala-azar is the visceral form of leishmaniasis and it is caused by intracellular parasites from the complex Leishmania donovani. Golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) infected with Leishmania donovani ...
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Note préliminaire sur une réaction rapide et simple permettant de différencier le paludisme du kala-azar de la fièvres typhoïde et des autres fièvres
... En essayant la réaction dans le kala-azar, le paludisme, la fièvre typhoïde et la tuberculose, les auteurs estiment que la conclusion précédente demande à être m[r] ...
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A comparative evaluation of end emic and non-endemic region of visceral leishmaniasis (Kala-azar) in India with ground survey and space technology
... Satellite-derived proxy for vegetation status derived from NDVI values showed that the majority of sandflies are present in the less dense vegetation zone. This rela- tionship is potentially due to the fact that areas ...
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Post Kala-Azar dermal leishmaniasis following treatment with 20 mg/kg liposomal amphotericin B (Ambisome) for primary visceral leishmaniasis in Bihar, India.
... Background: The skin disorder Post Kala-Azar Dermal Leishmaniasis (PKDL) occurs in up to 10% of patients treated for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in India. The pathogenesis of PKDL is not yet fully ...
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Delimitation of kala-azar risk areas in the district of Vaishali in Bihar (India) using a geo-environmental approach
... for kala-azar transmis- sion, simple weightings/ratings were calculated for all of the input variables, leading to a geo-environmental risk ...a kala-azar restricted area (no transmission ...
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Anti-Leishmania titers and positive skin tests in patients cured of kala-azar
... as kala-azar, is an important public health ...a kala-azar endemic area in Paço do Lumiar, MA, Brazil, on the basis of 1995-2005 notifications reported by the National Health ...
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Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis in Nepal: a retrospective cohort study (2000-2010).
... Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a late complica- tion of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), which usually appears several months after treatment of a VL episode. PKDL is seen in areas where ...
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Population preference of net texture prior to bed net trial in Kala-Azar-endemic areas.
... Prior to a community-based efficacy trial of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) in the prevention of visceral leishmaniasis (VL; also called kala-azar), a pilot study on preference of tools was held in ...
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Kala-azar in pregnancy in Mymensingh, Bangladesh: a social autopsy.
... on kala-azar or visceral leishmaniasis, we learned of this pregnant woman with kala-azar, who had recently delivered a stillborn infant and died one week after ...from kala-azar ...
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Post-kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis Associated With AIDS
... Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is rarely reported in South America. In spite of the fact that there are many reports about the association of visceral leishmaniasis and AIDS, PKDL is very ...
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Atypical disseminated leishmaniasis similar to post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis in a Brazilian AIDS patient infected with Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum chagasi: a case report
... manifestation is a form of cutaneous leishmaniasis char- acterized by maculopapular or nodular lesions on the face, limbs or trunk, which appear after a symptom-free period following the end of visceral leishmaniasis ...
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Comparison of optical microscopy and quantitative polymerase chain reaction for estimating parasitaemia in patients with kala-azar and modelling infectiousness to the vector Lutzomyia longipalpis
... compared to microscopy must be attributed to recently dead parasite DNA leached from other tissues (spleen, liver, bone marrow, skin) in “real time” (Prina et al. 2007). However, caution with the present results has to ...
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Un caso de kala-azar en Mexico
... rrero, que había presentado fiebre desde un año antes del ingreso en el Hospit’al de Enfermedades de la Nukición, y en quien la exploración física reveló espleno[r] ...
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Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) complicating the double trouble of Malaria and Kala-azar - a rare presentation
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Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), or kala-azar, is a vector-borne zoonotic disease that represents a challenge for Brazilian public health, mainly due to its recent expansion to medium and large urban areas
... Figure 1 – Number of cases, incidence and lethality rate due to visceral leishmaniasis in the municipality of Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso State, Brazil, between 2011 and 2016... Excludi[r] ...
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Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop. vol.29 número2
... an kala-azar22, th e presence o f infective parasites in th e secreta o f the u pper respiratory and digestive tracts, as w ell as in u rin e and faeces w ere ...ith kala-azar in hum ...for ...
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Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop. vol.46 número2
... with kala-azar was both electronically and manually paired with the list of all patients with HIV, both from the hospital list as well as the state health ...with kala-azar were also tested ...
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