Visceral leishmaniasis: what are the needs for diagnosis, treatment and control?

F Chappuis, S Sundar, A Hailu, H Ghalib… - Nature reviews …, 2007 - nature.com
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a systemic protozoan disease that is transmitted by
phlebotomine sandflies. Poor and neglected populations in East Africa and the Indian sub …

Canine leishmaniasis

J Alvar, C Canavate, R Molina, J Moreno… - Advances in …, 2004 - books.google.com
Canine leishmaniasis Page 19 Canine Leishmaniasis Jorge Alvar*, Carmen Canavate,
Ricardo Molina, Javier Moreno and Javier Nieto WHO Collaborating Centre for …

Diagnosis of parasitic diseases: old and new approaches

M Ndao - Interdisciplinary perspectives on infectious diseases, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Methods for the diagnosis of infectious diseases have stagnated in the last 20–30 years.
Few major advances in clinical diagnostic testing have been made since the introduction of …

Leishmaniasis in Turkey

ÜZ Ok, İC Balcıoğlu, AT Özkan, S Özensoy, Y Özbel - Acta tropica, 2002 - Elsevier
Leishmaniases are widespread in most countries in the Mediterranean basin, including
Turkey. Two forms are observed in Turkey; Leishmania infantum is responsible from visceral …

A Real-Time ITS1-PCR Based Method in the Diagnosis and Species Identification of Leishmania Parasite from Human and Dog Clinical Samples in Turkey

SO Toz, G Culha, FY Zeyrek, H Ertabaklar… - PLoS neglected …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Human visceral leishmaniasis (VL) caused by L. infantum and cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL)
caused by L. tropica and L. infantum have been reported in Turkey. L. infantum is also …

Canine visceral leishmaniasis: Diagnosis and management of the reservoir living among us

BL Travi, A Cordeiro-da-Silva… - PLoS neglected …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
This article reviews essential topics of canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL) due to
Leishmania infantum infection. It focuses on the current serological and molecular …

Rapid Detection of Leishmania infantum Infection in Dogs: Comparative Study Using an Immunochromatographic Dipstick Test, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent …

R Reithinger, RJ Quinnell, B Alexander… - Journal of Clinical …, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
Current zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (ZVL) control programs in Brazil include the culling
of Leishmania infantum-infected reservoir dogs, a strategy that has failed to prevent a rise of …

Leishmania model for microbial virulence: the relevance of parasite multiplication and pathoantigenicity

KP Chang, SG Reed, BS McGwire, L Soong - Acta tropica, 2003 - Elsevier
Leishmanial mechanisms of virulence have been proposed previously to involve two
different groups of parasite molecules. One group consists of largely surface and secretory …

[HTML][HTML] Reflexões sobre a qualidade do diagnóstico da leishmaniose visceral canina em inquéritos epidemiológicos: o caso da epidemia de Belo Horizonte, Minas …

WA Alves, PD Bevilacqua - Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2004 - SciELO Brasil
No Brasil, a leishmaniose visceral (LV) apresenta quadros graves de endemias e epidemias
havendo, nos últimos anos, uma propagação da doença por vários estados que antes não …

Evaluation of the Leishmania recombinant K39 antigen as a diagnostic marker for canine leishmaniasis and validation of a standardized enzyme-linked …

A Scalone, R De Luna, G Oliva, L Baldi, G Satta… - Veterinary …, 2002 - Elsevier
Canine infections with Leishmania infantum are important as a cause of serious disease in
the dog and as a reservoir for human visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Accurate diagnosis of …