Leishmaniasis is caused by the infection of haemoparasite „Leishmaniadonovani’. Clinically it can present as Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL), Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis (MCL) and Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL). In India it is a major health problem in the North & Central regions of India and is infrequently reported from western India. However, we encountered two clinically suspected cases of Leishm...

For many years, speech has been the most natural and efficient means of information exchange for human beings. With the advancement of technology and the prevalence of computer usage, the design and production of speech recognition systems have been considered by researchers. Among this, lip-reading techniques encountered with many challenges for speech recognition, that one of the challenges b...

Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by protozoa of the genus Leishmania, and visceral leishmaniasis is a form in which the inner organs are affected. Since knowledge about immunity in experimental visceral leishmaniasis is poor, we present here a review on immunity and immunosuppression in experimental visceral leishmaniasis in mouse and hamster models. We show the complexity of the mechanisms in...

The use of visual information from lip movements can improve the accuracy and robustness of a speech recognition system. Accurate extraction of visual features associated with the lips is thus very important. In this paper, we present a deformable model-based technique for lip contour extraction from color lip images. The geometric lip model we proposed is able to fit different lip shapes. Our ...

Lip contour detection and tracking is the most important pre-requisite for computerized speech reading. Several approaches have been proposed for lip tracking after lip contour is accurately initialized on first frame. Detection and tracking of the lip contour is an issue in speech reading. A relatively large class of lip reading algorithms are available based on lip contour analysis. In these ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the upper lip by Holdaway’s method in individuals with bimaxillary proclination and to find out correlations of skeletal convexity at point A & maxillary incisor inclination with upper lip inclination and upper lip strain. Lateral cephalograms of 100 patients (50 males and 50 females) exhibiting bimaxillary dental proclination were exposed in closed li...

objective(s)cpg oligodeoxynucleotides (cpg odns) have been shown to have potent immunostimulatory adjuvant activity for a wide range of antigens. due to susceptibility of phosphodiester cpg odns (po cpg) to nuclease degradation, nuclease-resistant phosphorothioate cpg odns (ps cpg) were currently utilized in an in vivo model. in this study, according to some recently reported drawbacks with ps ...

A PCR assay amplifying a repeated sequence from the Leishmania infantum genome was compared with direct examination of bone marrow aspirate, myeloculture, and serology for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in immunocompromised patients. Of 73 patients living in an area endemic for leishmaniasis and where visceral leishmaniasis was suspected by physicians, only 10 had an indisputable diagn...