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    Cutaneous leishmaniasis is the most common form of leishmaniasis affecting humans. It is a skin infection caused by a single-celled parasite that is transmitted...
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    Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis produces widespread skin lesions which resemble leprosy, and may not heal on their own. Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis causes...
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    genus Leishmania, and is associated with the disease zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (also known as Aleppo boil, Baghdad boil, Bay sore, Biskra button...
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    flagellate parasite and the cause of anthroponotic[dubious – discuss] cutaneous leishmaniasis in humans. This parasite is restricted to Afro-Eurasia and is a...
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    leishmaniasis and free-living amoeba infections such as Naegleria fowleri and Balamuthia mandrillaris. This includes the three forms of leishmaniasis:...
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    stigmatization of leishmaniasis today. In India, both cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis are caused by Leishmania donovani. The first records of cutaneous leishmaniasis...
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    Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar (Hindi: kālā āzār, "black sickness") or "black fever", is the most severe form of leishmaniasis and,...
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    vectors of leishmaniasis and pappataci fever; both diseases are confusingly referred to as sandfly fever. In Asia, Africa, and Europe, leishmaniasis is spread...
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    leishmaniasis in the Mediterranean region and in Latin America, where it has been called Leishmania chagasi. It is also an unusual cause of cutaneous...
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    Canine leishmaniasis (LEESH-ma-NIGH-ah-sis) is a zoonotic disease (see human leishmaniasis) caused by Leishmania parasites transmitted by the bite of...
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    Mexico and Central America, this parasite is the primary cause of cutaneous leishmaniasis. Infected sandflies carry L. mexicana in its promastigote form...
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  • Thumbnail for Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis
    Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a complication of visceral leishmaniasis (VL); it is characterised by a macular, maculopapular, and nodular...
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  • visceral leishmaniasis (see also canine leishmaniasis). L. braziliensis causes mucocutaneous leishmaniasis. L. tropica causes cutaneous leishmaniasis. L. peruviana...
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    Cathoire reported the first case of infantile leishmaniasis from Tunisia. He published a treatise on leishmaniasis in 1917. Laveran later worked on the trypanosomes...
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  • Leishmania aethiopica is a Leishmania species. It is associated with cutaneous leishmaniasis also called "oriental sore". It comes under the old world group...
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    genus Leishmania. Leishmaniasis normally finds a mammalian reservoir in rodents and other small animals such as canids (canine leishmaniasis) and hyraxes....
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    "Monocyte recruitment, antigen degradation and localization in cutaneous leishmaniasis". British Journal of Experimental Pathology. 67 (2): 209–218. ISSN 0007-1021...
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    manifest cutaneously (cutaneous leishmaniasis) as skin sores with as scab a few weeks after the bite or internally (visceral leishmaniasis), affecting...
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    World cutaneous leishmaniasis in adults". VisualDX. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (February 18, 2020). "Parasites - Leishmaniasis Biology"...
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    option to suramin. It is an option for both visceral leishmaniasis and cutaneous leishmaniasis. Pentamidine can be given by injection into a vein or...
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    A Leishmaniasis vaccine is a vaccine which would prevent leishmaniasis. As of 2017, no vaccine for humans was available. Currently some effective leishmaniasis...
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    Rodents also help to transmit diseases including babesiosis, cutaneous leishmaniasis, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, Lyme disease, Omsk hemorrhagic...
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    visceral leishmaniasis occur annually. It is a vector-borne disease caused by the bite of sandflies. At least 90 percent of visceral leishmaniasis occurs...
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    Shingles (category Virus-related cutaneous conditions)
    involvement may occur alone or in combination with a rash on the skin over the cutaneous distribution of the same trigeminal branch. As with shingles of the skin...
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    antimoniate is a medicine used to treat leishmaniasis. This includes visceral, mucocutaneous, and cutaneous leishmaniasis. It is given by injection into a muscle...
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    and other diseases such as leishmaniasis. Paromomycin was demonstrated to be effective against cutaneous leishmaniasis in clinical studies in the USSR...
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  • Leishmania amazonensis (category Leishmaniasis)
    forms of Leishmaniasis. For this species, it has been known to cause cutaneous leishmaniasis and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis. Cutaneous leishmaniasis is commonly...
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    among others, is a medication used to treat leishmaniasis. This includes leishmaniasis of the cutaneous, visceral, and mucosal types. Some combination...
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    spider bite, necrotic cutaneous loxoscelism) Mal morando Millipede burn Mosquito bite Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (espundia, leishmaniasis americana) Myiasis...
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  • Nakkazi, E. (March 12, 2012). "New vaccine trials to prevent visceral leishmaniasis". New Science Journalism. Retrieved June 16, 2013. "Leprosy". www.who...
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