Experimental ocular leishmaniasis.

Unusual Presentation of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: Ocular Leishmaniasis

The leishmaniases are parasitic diseases that are transmitted to humans by infected female sandflies. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is one of 3 main forms of the disease. CL is the most common form of the disease and is endemic in many urban and rural parts of Iran and usually caused by two species of Leishmania: L. major and L. tropica. We report a case of unusual leishmaniasis with 25 lesions ...

ocular leishmaniasis

purpose: to introduce the importance and world prevalence of ocular leishmaniasis (ol), its clinical manifestations, and diagnostic and management features with more emphasis on iranian cases. methods: we reviewed all available articles published about ol during recent 50 years. results: ol is an ocular protozoal infection which is widespread in the world but is more common in developing countr...

Experimental ocular schistosomiasis.

Schistosomiasis is a widespread incapacitating disease, but ocular involvement is relatively rare. The first of the few cases of ocular schistosomiasis recorded in the literature was that reported in Egypt by Sobhy Bey (1928). Others were recorded by Wilson (I934), Barsoum (1938), Ibrahim (I 94I), Kamel (I948), Naim (1948), Mohamed (1956), and Sparrow (I966). All these took the form of bilharzi...

Experimental Ocular Syphilis and Neurosyphilis.

The challenge in clinical syphilis to-day is the detection of the disease in the sero-negative patient. The magnitude of this problem is evident when one considers that over 100 cases of ocular syphilis and neurosyphilis have been encountered in this institution within the past year (Smith, 1964; Smith and Moore, 1964; Smith and Taylor, 1965). Ofparamount importance is the fact that the majorit...

Perfluoropentane in experimental ocular surgery.