Economic development leads to changing interactions between humans and their physical
and biological environment. Worldwide patterns of human settlement in urban areas have …

In the last 20 years, despite the known underestimation of cases, Brazil registered a marked
increase in the incidence of visceral leishmaniasis. The main goal of this review is to reflect …

Leishmaniasis diagnosis in regions where multiple species exist should identify each
species directly in the clinical sample without parasite culturing. The sensitivity of two PCR …

Background Still today, more than 30 years after the beginning of the process of visceral
leishmaniasis' urbanization, there is little knowledge about the risk factors for its occurrence …

The diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a serious and often fatal parasitic disease
caused by members of the Leishmania donovani complex, remains problematic. Current …

The laboratory and field observations summarized in this paper on visceral leishmaniasis
ecology in the State of Bahia, Brazil are based on the author's observations over the past 35 …

Canine leishmaniosis (CanL) is caused by the parasite Leishmania infantum and is a
systemic disease, which can present with variable clinical signs, and clinicopathological …

A leishmaniose visceral no Brasil estava inicialmente associada a áreas rurais, mas devido
às diversas alterações no ambiente como, desmatamentos, urbanização e intenso processo …

First Described: The cause of visceral leishmaniasis was first described in India in 1903
(separately by William Leishman and Charles Donovan).• Causes: Canine and feline …

We used time-series analysis and linear regression to investigate the relationship between
the annual Niño-3 index from 1980 to 1998 and the annual incidence of visceral …