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 …

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 …

Global genome diversity of the Leishmania donovani complex

SU Franssen, C Durrant, O Stark, B Moser, T Downing… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Protozoan parasites of the Leishmania donovani complex–L. donovani and L. infantum–
cause the fatal disease visceral leishmaniasis. We present the first comprehensive genome …

Outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia bacteraemia in a tertiary care centre due to contaminated ultrasound probe gel

R Abdelfattah, S Al-Jumaah, A Al-Qahtani… - Journal of Hospital …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Burkholderia cepacia is an important opportunistic organism in hospitalized
and immunocompromised patients, particularly in cystic fibrosis. Aims To describe the …

Genomic Diversification, Structural Plasticity, and Hybridization in Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis

LH Patino, M Muñoz, L Cruz-Saavedra… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis is an important Leishmania species circulating in several
Central and South American countries. Among Leishmania species circulating in Brazil …

Comparative genomic analyses of new and old world viscerotropic leishmanine parasites: further insights into the origins of visceral leishmaniasis agents

FT Silveira, EC Sousa Junior, RVD Silvestre… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar, is an anthropozoonotic disease
affecting human populations on five continents. Aetiologic agents belong to the Leishmania …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular identification of parasites causing cutaneous leishmaniasis in Panama

AC Miranda, KA González, F Samudio… - The American Journal …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Isolates from 475 cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) patients from three endemic regions were
studied by three typing techniques. The molecular analysis from lesion scrapings based on …

Distinct genetic profiles of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis associate with clinical variations in cutaneous-leishmaniasis patients from an endemic area in Brazil

PF Quaresma, CFA de Brito, JMN Rugani… - Parasitology, 2018 - cambridge.org
American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) samples obtained from the lesions of patients
with typical (n= 25, 29%), atypical (n= 60, 69%) or both (n= 2%) clinical manifestations were …

Geospatial-temporal distribution of Tegumentary Leishmaniasis in Colombia (2007–2016)

G Herrera, A Teherán, I Pradilla, M Vera… - PLoS Neglected …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Tegumentary Leishmaniasis (TL) is a neglected disease with worldwide
distribution and considered a public health problem, especially in Latin America. In …

In-depth quantitative proteomics uncovers specie-specific metabolic programs in Leishmania (Viannia) species

N Pinho, JR Wiśniewski, G Dias-Lopes… - PLoS neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Leishmania species are responsible for a broad spectrum of diseases, denominated
Leishmaniasis, affecting over 12 million people worldwide. During the last decade, there …