BACKGROUND Visceral Leishmaniasis coinfection with HIV/AIDS has emerged as a series of disease pattern. It most often results in unfavorable responses to treatment, frequent relapses, and deaths. Scarce data is available regarding the prevalence of HIV and associated factors among Visceral Leishmaniasis coinfected patients. This study sought to determine the prevalence of HIV and associated fac...

Clinical presentations of Leishmania infection include visceral (most common form), cutaneous, mucocutaneous, mucosal and post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis. Mucosal form of leishmaniasis mostly involves oral and nasal mucosa. Rarely, laryngeal and pharyngeal mucosa may also be involved. Its concomitant presence with tuberculosis (TB), a disease rampant in India, is uncommon. Here we are repor...

This study aimed to verify the body condition parameters that can be used characterise possible cases of neglect in dogs with visceral leishmaniasis. Fifty were study. The control group contained 11 dogs. Of 39 infected dogs, 25 and 14 included multisymptomatic oligo/asymptomatic groups, respectively. evaluated score, mass index, bone marrow fat percentage (Soxhlet method), supernatant content ...

Post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a non-ulcerative lesion of the skin caused by Leishmania donovani, which is usually seen after completion of treatment of the kala-azar. The condition is yet to be reported from Nepal. We document and report for the first time a case of PKDL in Nepal.

Visceral leishmaniasis is a disease that reemerged in various locations in Brazil in the 1980s and spread to new areas, including the Southeast and Central-West of the country. Previously, visceral leishmaniasis was a disease that occurred in rural areas of the Northeast, mainly affecting children 1. However, most cases of visceral leishmaniasis now come from periurban areas of cities in Northe...

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is endemic in the island of São Luis, State of Maranhão, Brazil. Despite an increase in the number of VL cases, the frequency of the disease is low among pregnant women. We present here the case of a pregnant woman followed up by our group, who was treated with amphotericin B with excellent outcome.

Leishmaniasis is a chronic intracellular parasitic infection that travelers, immigrants, deployed military personnel, and refugees from endemic global areas acquire from the bite of infected sand flies and carry with them, including to non-endemic countries where leishmaniasis may be an unfamiliar illness to medical providers. This commentary discusses the first clinical practice guidelines pro...

Analysis of the literature on cutaneous leishmaniasis in low-prevalence countries suggests an increase in imported cases that is attributable to the growing phenomenon of international tourism, migration and military operations in highly endemic regions. Cases of imported cutaneous leishmaniasis are often missed initially, but diagnosis can be made non-invasively by PCR using skin scrapings of ...

The authors analyzed the available literature data and statistics, results can be found for leishmaniasis in Armenia. Between June 2019 December 2021, 375 different breeds were deployed. 135 animals subjected to a comprehensive study with laboratory diagnostics of blood serum detection Leishmania infantum antigen. In 68 dogs, antigens detected using VetExpert Ab immunochromatographic instrument...

The aim of the work is to summarize available literature data on cases visceral leishmaniasis in children registered Russian Federation, as well describe our own clinical observation autochthonous a 9-year-old child, diagnosis which polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method was used. Materials and methods: review domestic foreign over past 20 years, including Internet resources, carried out. We ob...