Canine visceral leishmaniasis is a major public health problem that is endemic in tropical and sub tropical countries and is fatal in humans and dogs. In addition to symptomatic dogs, asymptomatic ones seem as source of Leishmania infantum infection. Thus surveillance and control programs of reservoir hosts are essential. This study aimed to evaluate the sero-prevalence of visceral leishmaniasi...

clinical and laboratory findings of 24 patients with kala-azar are presented here from our survey. kala-azar is such more prevalent than the number of diagnosed cases might suggest and most of them die because of the lack of medical care available locally. malnutrition, poor hygiene and lack of education are important factors in the high mortality rate from this infection.

Case report of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis who developed severe neutropenia, splenomegaly and was diagnosed with Felty's syndrome. The patient later developed Kala-azar. Both diseases have similar clinical and laboratory presentation, making the differential diagnosis difficult. The present case report aims at drawing attention to the identification of visceral Leishmaniasis infection i...

Notre connaissance de la ceramique periode parthe dans le nord-est l'Iran reste encore extremement lacunaire. C'est donc une satisfaction voir nouvelle publication du materiel obtenu lors des fouilles “Building V”, imposante structure, autrefois a trois etages. Une presentation detaillee est precedee d'une discussion plan Bâtiment V et suivie par l’analyse distribution les pieces bâtiment. La S...

BACKGROUND Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), commonly known as kala-azar is a systemic disease caused by parasitic protozoan species of genus Leishmania and transmitted by species of Phlebotomus (sand flies). It is a poverty-related disease and associated with malnutrition, displacement, poor housing, weakness of the immune system and lack of resources. For the success of prevention and control prog...

Kala-azar as a distinct clinical entity has been recognized in this country for about a century. A number of epidemics occurred in Bengal, and though it was in early stages confused with malaria, failure to respond to specific treatment led to the establishment of its separate entity. This was confirmed in 1903 by the discovery of Leishman-Donovan bodies? the causative organism, by W. B. Leishm...

BACKGROUND Known as 'neglected disease' because relatively little effort has been applied to finding cures, leishmaniasis kills more than 150,000 people every year and debilitates millions more. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also called Kala Azar (KA) or black fever in India, claims around 20,000 lives every year. Whole genome analysis presents an excellent means to identify new targets for drug...

Background: Creasing the older adult population has become a major public health challenge. Social support plays an important role in people's health. helps improve living conditions of elderly and brings happiness into lives elderly. This study aimed to investigate relationship between social status 60–75-year-olds referred centers Zarrin Shahr, Iran 2019.Methods: In this cross-sectional study...