1/6. Visceral leishmaniasis in a dog from maryland.Visceral leishmaniasis is a zoonotic disease that can be transmitted from dogs to humans by a sand-fly vector. Endemic cases of visceral leishmaniasis among dogs in oklahoma, texas, and ohio have been reported. Recent reports of visceral leishmaniasis in Foxhounds in the eastern coastal states has raised new concerns about the importance of this disease in the united states.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = leishmaniasis (Clic here for more details about this article) |
2/6. New World leishmaniasis from spain.A 69 year old man living in spain contracted mucocutaneous leishmaniasis involving the nose. The infecting organism was leishmania infantum, which only rarely causes the New World form of the disease. The source of infection was probably a neighbour's dog. The patient began treatment with liposomal amphotericin b but died of pneumonia two months later.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.71428571428571keywords = leishmaniasis (Clic here for more details about this article) |
3/6. Palestinian infantile visceral leishmaniasis caused by a genetic variant of leishmania infantum belonging to a new zymodeme.The parasites causing a Palestinian case of infantile visceral leishmaniasis (IVL) and those from four dogs from the Jenin District were identified serologically, biochemically and molecular biologically as leishmania infantum, showing dogs act as a reservoir. The strain from the human case was distinct because of its unique 200-bp kDNA-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) component in its restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) profile after digestion with the endonuclease RsaI, and by the electrophoretic mobility of its malate dehydrogenase (MDH(140)), designating it the reference strain of a new zymodeme of L. infantum, MON-281.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.71428571428571keywords = leishmaniasis (Clic here for more details about this article) |
4/6. Active cutaneous leishmaniasis in brazil, induced by leishmania donovani chagasi.L.d. chagasi was isolated from active cutaneous leishmaniasis in both human and canine infections in an endemic area in Rio de Janeiro, brazil. Both isolates were identified by molecular and immunological characterization of the parasite using three different methods: electrophoretic mobility of isoenzymes; restriction endonuclease fragment analysis of kDNA and serodeme analysis using monoclonal antibodies. This seems to be the first well documented case in the New World of a "viscerotropic" Leishmania inducing a case of cutaneous leishmaniasis. This observation emphasizes that the diagnosis of the etiologic agent of human or canine visceral leishmaniasis based solely upon clinical and epidemiological criteria may lead to erroneous conclusions.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = leishmaniasis (Clic here for more details about this article) |
5/6. Is leishmaniasis endemic on the island of Minorca (spain)? A human visceral case after living 13 years in Minorca.Ecoepidemiological studies performed in Minorca (Balearic islands) seem to show that leishmaniasis is not endemic in this island, even in the presence of the vector. All cases of leishmaniasis in man or dog diagnosed in the island seem to come from other Spanish regions. A recent case of human visceral leishmaniasis in a man who had not left Minorca for 13 years calls into question this assumption or the time that Leishmania may persist asymptomatic in the host.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = leishmaniasis (Clic here for more details about this article) |
6/6. The re-emergence of American visceral leishmaniasis in an old focus in venezuela: present situation of human and canine infections.The report of a new autochthonous case of human American Visceral leishmaniasis (AVL) in 1992 in the village of Guayabita, Aragua State, venezuela (10 degrees 16'N, 67 degrees 28'W; 500 m asl), led us to undertake an epidemiological study in this locality. A demographic survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire in which data was collected regarding sex, age, occupation, length of residence in the area and migratory history. A leishmanin skin test (LST) was applied and samples of venous blood for counter immunoelectrophoresis (CIEP) and immunofluorescent antibodies (IFAT) tests were drawn. The prevalence of positive LST was 11.4%. The positivity was highest among males and increased with age. Young males seemed to be more exposed to infection than females. Since occupation per se did not seem to account for this association, it may be explained as a gender-associated behavior, leading to different degrees of exposure to sand flies. The canine population was also screened for leishmanial infection. One dog was shown to be parasitologically infected with Leishmania sp. Four out of 71 dogs (5.6%) were positive for FG, CIEP, IFAT and Western Blot and 11 (15.5%) were positive for CIEP. These results suggest that after almost 30 years of epidemiological silence, American visceral leishmaniasis has re-emerged in this focus.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.71428571428571keywords = leishmaniasis (Clic here for more details about this article) |