Tegumentary leishmaniasis
Phase 1 Study of an Inactivated Vaccine against American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis in Normal Volunteers in Brazil
... American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) is an endemic anthropozoonosis undergoing expan- sion on the American continent. Its importance is due to its broad range of clinical manifestations, varying from ...
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Ecological Aspects of Phebotomine (Diptera, Psychodidae) in an Endemic Area of Tegumentary Leishmaniasis in the Northeastern Argentina, 1993-1998
... The first epidemic tegumentary leishmaniasis´ outbreak in the province of Misiones was recorded in 1998, in the locality of Puerto Esperanza. Phlebotominae collected in the region, previously or ...
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Alterations in Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions by the Use of Meglumine Antimoniate in American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis Patients
... Tegumentary Leishmaniasis (TL) is a neglected, non-contagious, infectious disease, caused by different protozoa species of the Leishmania genus that affects skin and mucous mem- ...
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Are Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Playing a Role in the Parasite Control in Active American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis Lesions?
... American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) ...human tegumentary leishmaniasis lesions is still unknown, and it remains unclear whether NETs exert effects on the control of initial parasite ...
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Decreased memory T-cell response and function in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients with tegumentary leishmaniasis
... sions and nasopharyngeal and/or genital mucosal dam- age (Coura et al. 1987, Machado et al. 1992, Da-Cruz et al. 1999, Lindoso et al. 2009). The clinical outcome of Leishmania infection is dependent upon the balance of ...
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Efficiency of noninvasive sampling methods (swab) together with Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for diagnosing American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis
... for the genus or species-specific diagnosis of tegumentary leishmaniasis. However, despite having lower specificity than other genes, the most commonly used target gene is kDNA, due to the high copy number ...
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Clinico-immunological spectrum of American tegumentary leishmaniasis and leprosy coinfection: A case series in Southeastern Brazil
... American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) and leprosy share common areas of prevalence, but reports of coinfection are ...with leishmaniasis (5 cutaneous, 3 mucocutaneous, 1 disseminated case) ...
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Descriptive study of American tegumentary leishmaniasis in the urban area of the Municipality of Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais State, Brazil
... American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL), the clinical and epidemiological profiles and the spatial distribution of the disease were evaluated between 2001 and 2006 in an endemic area located in the Rio ...
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Towards a more precise serological diagnosis of human tegumentary leishmaniasis using Leishmania recombinant proteins.
... Methodology/Principal Findings: Herein, ELISA was used to screen sera from patients with Tegumentary Leishmaniasis (TL) against different L. infantum-chagasi-derived recombinant proteins (rHSP70, rH2A, ...
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Tegumentary leishmaniasis outbreak in Bella Vista City, Corrientes, Argentina during 2003
... Tegumentary leishmaniasis (TL) is endemic in area of Northern Argentina that includes nine political provinces and three bio-regions: the ‘Yungas’ and ‘Paranaense’ sub- tropical forests, and the xeric ...
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Leishmanial Antigens in the Diagnosis of Active Lesions and Ancient Scars of American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis Patients
... American tegumentary leishmaniasis were studied by conventional and immunohistochemical ...cutaneous leishmaniasis (n = 53) (Group I), cicatricial lesions of cutaneous leishma- niasis (n = 35) (Group ...
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Ocorrência de casos de leishmaniose tegumentar americana: uma análise multivariada dos circuitos espaciais de produção, Minas Gerais, Brasil, 2007 a 2011 American tegumentary leishmaniasis: a multivariate analysis of the spatial circuits for production of
... The aim of this study was to explain the asso- ciation between social-environmental factors and major land uses and the occurrence of cases of American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) in the spatial ...
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APPLICABILITY OF kDNA-PCR FOR ROUTINE DIAGNOSIS OF AMERICAN TEGUMENTARY LEISHMANIASIS IN A TERTIARY REFERENCE HOSPITAL
... American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) in patients from the Instituto de Infectologia Emílio Ribas (IIER), a reference center for infectious diseases in São Paulo - SP, ...
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REPOSITORIO INSTITUCIONAL DA UFOP: American tegumentary leishmaniasis : effectiveness of an immunohistochemical protocol for the detection of leishmania in skin.
... Cross-reactions between the antibodies and non-target species of Leishmania suggest the possibility of using them in IHC to assess infection by different species and other trypanosomatids, including Trypanosomacruzi ...
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Maxadilan-simile expression in Nyssomyia neivai, a sandfly vector in an endemic region of Brazil, and its immunogenicity in patients with American tegumentary leishmaniasis
... Leishmaniasis encompasses a spectrum of diseases caused by an obligate intramacrophage protozoan be- longing to the genus Leishmania (Kinetoplastida: Try- panosomatidae). The parasite is transmitted by the bite of ...
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Clinical and Immunopathological Spectrum of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis with Special Reference to the Disease in Amazonian Brazil - A Review
... cutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL), or to the cellular hy- posensitivity pole in cases of anergic diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis ...of tegumentary leishmaniasis are totally ...
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Regulation of T cell response to leishmania antigens by determinants of histocompatibility leukocyte class I and II molecules
... The effect of mAb to MHC I and II molecules on the lymphocyte proliferative response to leishmania antigen in patients with tegumentary leishmaniasis is shown in Figure 1. Although the magnitude of the ...
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REPOSITORIO INSTITUCIONAL DA UFOP: Epitope mapping of the HSP83.1 protein of Leishmania braziliensis discloses novel targets for immunodiagnosis of tegumentary and visceral clinical forms of leishmaniasis.
... Gold standard serological diagnostic methods focus on antigens that elicit a strong humoral immune response that is specific to a certain pathogen. In this study, we used bioinformatics approaches to identify linear ...
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Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop. vol.48 suppl.1
... American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) in the State of Amazonas, Brazil, in the last 30 years with emphasis on the last 10 years (2001 to ...of leishmaniasis in the State of ...
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Atypical presentations of cutaneous leishmaniasis: a systematic review
... of tegumentary leishmaniasis have been reported in the majority of endemic ...cutaneous leishmaniasis pleomorphism is still unclear, but variations in parasite virulence and host factors, including ...
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