Visceral leishmaniasis is a systemic infectious disease that can cause to a severe, potentially life-threatening chronic condition in humans. Risk factors for infection in urban areas have been associated with poor living conditions, the presence of sand fly vectors and infected pets. This study aimed to describe sand fly and canine infection in the neighborhoods of human visceral leishmaniasis...

INTRODUCTION Visceral leishmaniasis is a neglected disease. Jaciara, State of Mato Grosso has the most cases. This study aimed to determine the risk factors and seroprevalence of canine visceral leishmaniasis in urban and rural areas. METHODS This cross-sectional study of domestic dogs used enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and indirect immunofluorescence test. RESULTS The prevalence was 54...

OBJECTIVE To report a case of foveal and macular intraretinal hemorrhages in an immunocompetent male patient with visceral leishmaniasis. CASE REPORT An immunocompetent, 42 year-old male, presented with progressive visual loss and metamorphopsia in his right eye. The fundus examination showed a foveal round yellow lesion and intraretinal hemorrhages in the macula. The patient was hospitalized...

herein, a 28-year-old man with hoarseness, skin and oral lesions is presented. at the time of admission, the patient had an erythematous plaque on his chin near his lower lip and an erythematous-violaceous plaque on his palate near the open-ing of the pharynx and 20 kg weight lost in last one year. the biopsy of his skin lesions by hematoxylin and eosin staining revealed an infiltration of the ...

we describe a case of visceral leishmaniasis (vl) due to leishmania tropica in a 50-year-old iranian man lived in a vl-endemic area in southwest of iran. the patient presented with a 3-month history of fever and splenomegaly. clinical signs and serological findings were suggestive of vl. spleen biopsy was taken from the patient and intracellular forms of leishmania amastigotes was seen in giems...

background: visceral leishmaniasis (vl) or kala-azar is a parasitic disease caused by the species of leishmania donovani complex . it is endemic in some parts of provinces of iran. according to the reported cases of vl in kermanshah province in recent years, this study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of vl in high risk villages of the province. methods: totally, 1622 serum samples...

b a ckground: a two year seroepidemiological study was designed to find out the seroprevalence and risk factors ofcanine visceral leishmaniasis (cvl) among stray and owned dogs in tehran and alborz provinces of iran. me t hods: blood samples of  602 dogs living in  11  counties of  tehran and  alborz  provinces were  taken by venipuncture in 2008–2010. after separation of blood sera, anti-leish...

Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) is one of the neglected tropical diseases in world. It becomes fatal if not diagnosed/or treated on time. The causative agent disease protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani. About 500,000 new cases VL occur annually all over world [1].

A study about the horizontal stratification of the sand fly fauna in two distinct ecosystems, caatinga area, endemic for visceral leishmaniasis, and the tropical rain forest area, endemic for cutaneous leishmaniasis, was performed in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Lutzomyia longipalpis was predominant in the caatinga, and following it came the species L. capixaba and L. oswaldoi. In the tropical r...