Post‐kala‐azar dermal leishmaniasis with mucosal involvement in a kidney transplant recipient: treatment with liposomal amphotericin B

G Roustan, JA Jimenez… - British Journal of …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
Post‐kala‐azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a rare clinical variant of cutaneous
leishmaniasis. It is very common in the Indian subcontinent and less frequent in East Africa …

Leishmania donovani Induced Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: An Insight into Atypical Clinical Variants in Sri Lanka

Y Siriwardana, B Deepachandi… - Journal of tropical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Sri Lanka is a recent focus having Leishmania donovani induced cutaneous leishmaniasis
(CL) as the main clinical entity. A separate clinical entity within profile of CL was described in …

Comparison of the immune profile of nonhealing cutaneous Leishmaniasis patients with those with active lesions and those who have recovered from infection

S Ajdary, MH Alimohammadian, MB Eslami… - Infection and …, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
Th1-type cellular immune responses play a critical role in protection against infection with
Leishmania parasites, whereas activation of Th2-type cells results in progressive disease …

T-cell response in human leishmaniasis

A Kharazmi, K Kemp, A Ismail, S Gasim, A Gaafar… - Immunology letters, 1999 - Elsevier
In the present communication we provide evidence for the existence of a Th1/Th2 dichotomy
in the T-cell response to Leishmania antigens in human leishmaniasis. Our data suggest …

Characterization of the Local and Systemic Immune Responses in Patients with Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Due toLeishmania major

A Gaafar, B Veress, H Permin, A Kharazmi… - Clinical …, 1999 - Elsevier
In this study skin biopsies and peripheral blood samples were obtained from patients with
cutaneous leishmaniasis caused byLeishmania major. Samples were obtained at diagnosis …

T-cell-mediated immune responses in patients with cutaneous or mucosal leishmaniasis: long-term evaluation after therapy

AM Da-Cruz, R Bittar, M Mattos… - Clinical and Vaccine …, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT T-cell immune responses in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) and
mucosal leishmaniasis (ML) were studied during the active disease, at the end of therapy …

Immunobiology of leishmaniasis

U Sharma, S Singh - 2009 - nopr.niscpr.res.in
Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease caused by various species of Leishmania, a unicellular
kinetoplastid protozoan flagellate. It manifests mainly in 3 clinical forms; visceral …

Post‐kala‐azar dermal leishmaniasis in visceral leishmaniasis‐endemic communities in Bihar, India

RP Singh, A Picado, S Alam, E Hasker… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We assessed the prevalence of post‐kala‐azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL), a late
cutaneous manifestation of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), in 16 VL‐endemic communities in …

Leishmaniasis immunopathology—impact on design and use of vaccines, diagnostics and drugs

PM Kaye, I Cruz, A Picado, K Van Bocxlaer… - Seminars in …, 2020 - Springer
Leishmaniasis is a disease complex caused by 20 species of protozoan parasites belonging
to the genus Leishmania. In humans, it has two main clinical forms, visceral leishmaniasis …

Reassessment of immune correlates in human visceral leishmaniasis as defined by cytokine release in whole blood

OP Singh, K Gidwani, R Kumar, S Nylén… - Clinical and vaccine …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Depressed cell-mediated immunity in human visceral leishmaniasis (VL)(also known as kala-
azar), revealed as the inability of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) to respond to …