Canine leishmaniosis (CanL) is caused by the parasite Leishmania infantum and is a systemic disease, which can present with variable clinical signs, and clinicopathological abnormalities. Clinical manifestations can range from subclinical infection to very severe systemic disease. Leishmaniosis is categorized as a neglected tropical disease and the complex immune responses associated with Leish...

zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniosis is endemic in chabahar area, south east of iran. in order to determine the natural leptomonad infection of phlebotomine sandflies caught from rodent burrows, an investigation was carried out in three foci of this area during june to october 1997. sandflies were collected by sticky traps, placed at the openings of meriones hurrianae and tatera indica burrows. tot...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the evolution of the profile currently recommended by the International Renal Interest Society (IRIS) (sCr, UPC and sSDMA) with a panel of other different kidney biomarkers during treatment for canine leishmaniosis. This panel included three urinary glomerular biomarkers (uIgG, uCRP and uferritin) and three urinary tubular bioma...

The Effect of BASNEF Model-Based Education on Preventive Behavior Leishmaniosis in High School Students

American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis (ATL) is characterized as a zoonosis caused by protozoa of the genus Leishmania spp., presenting chronic, non-contagious evolution, and its transmission occurs through bite sand fly insects (Diptera: Psychodidae). The process expansion cities, agricultural frontiers, occupation peripheral areas contribute to occurrence epidemic outbreaks disease. This article ...

in a sand-fly survey, conducted for two years (1992-93) in ghirkarzjn, fars province a total of 1020 female phlebotomus keshishiani were dissected, of which 12 females were found to have promastigotes. promastigotes of six pb. keshishiani were inoculated to six hamsters and one hamster became infected, amastigotes were observed in the spleen, but the culture of parasite was not possible due to ...