Leishmaniasis diagnosis: an update on the use of parasitological, immunological and molecular methods

S Thakur, J Joshi, S Kaur - Journal of Parasitic Diseases, 2020 - Springer
Diagnosis of leishmaniasis has always been a major challenge as its clinical features
resemble some other commonly occurring diseases such as tuberculosis, typhoid, and …

Cutaneous leishmaniasis: updates in diagnosis and management

NE Aronson, CA Joya - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2019 - id.theclinics.com
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a severely neglected tropical disease that has been
significantly increasing in numbers affected over the past decades, with a change in global …

Advancement in leishmaniasis diagnosis and therapeutics: An update

D Kumari, S Perveen, R Sharma, K Singh - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Leishmaniasis is regarded as a neglected tropical disease by World Health Organization
(WHO) and is ranked next to malaria as the deadliest protozoan disease. The primary …

Molecular diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis

S Sundar, OP Singh - Molecular diagnosis & therapy, 2018 - Springer
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a deadly parasitic disease, is a major public health concern
globally. Countries affected by VL have signed the London Declaration on Neglected …

Laboratory diagnosis of cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis: current and future methods

JQ Reimão, EM Coser, MR Lee, AC Coelho - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease with two main clinical forms: cutaneous and
visceral leishmaniasis. Diagnosis of leishmaniasis is still a challenge, concerning the …

Laboratory diagnostics for human Leishmania infections: a polymerase chain reaction-focussed review of detection and identification methods

I Gow, NC Smith, D Stark, J Ellis - Parasites & Vectors, 2022 - Springer
Leishmania infections span a range of clinical syndromes and impact humans from many
geographic foci, but primarily the world's poorest regions. Transmitted by the bite of a female …

Recent advances and new strategies in Leishmaniasis diagnosis

RCF De Brito, RDO Aguiar-Soares… - Applied Microbiology …, 2020 - Springer
Leishmaniasis is a set of complex and multifaceted syndromes, with different clinical
manifestations, caused by different species of the genus Leishmania spp. that can be …

Post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis: A threat to elimination program

MR Gedda, B Singh, D Kumar, AK Singh… - PLoS Neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Leishmaniasis remains a public health concern around the world that primarily affects poor
folks of the developing world spanning across 98 countries with mortality of 0.2 million to 0.4 …

Molecular diagnosis of leishmaniasis: quantification of parasite load by a real-time PCR assay with high sensitivity

G Castelli, F Bruno, S Reale, S Catanzaro, V Valenza… - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Real-time PCR was developed to quantify Leishmania infantum kinetoplast DNA and
optimized to achieve a sensitivity of 1 parasite/mL. For this purpose, we cloned the …

Is leishmaniasis the new emerging zoonosis in the world?

E Montaner-Angoiti, L Llobat - Veterinary Research Communications, 2023 - Springer
Leishmania is a genus of parasitic protozoa that causes a disease called leishmaniasis.
Leishmaniasis is transmitted to humans through the bites of infected female sandflies. There …