Leishmaniasis

Leishmaniasis.

Epidemiology, disease patterns, immunology, diagnosis, treatment and control measures of leishmaniasis are described. Various issues relating to leishmaniasis are highlighted: the relative lack of importance given to this disease is compared with other infections, climate change and its possible effect on extension of endemicity of this infection, and new diagnostic tests that are helping bette...

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 ...

Visceral leishmaniasis.

While fully agreeing with Mr Cudmore that orchidopexy at 2 years of age is a difficult procedure and that the majority of orchidopexies are carried out by general surgeons or, unfortunately, delegated to a junior member of the team, the clinical and experimental evidence supporting orchidopexy at around the age of 2 years is overwhelming. The optimal age for orchidopexy cited in the annotation ...

Conflict Leishmaniasis

Visceral Leishmaniasis

General Considerations The most common etiologic agents of VL are 3 species of the L. donovani complex: Leishmania donovani donovani and Leishmania donovani infantum in the Indian subcontinent, Africa, China, the Mediterranean littoral, and the Middle East; and Leishmania donovani chagasi in South America. (Hereafter, organisms will be identified only by genus and species; eg, L. donovani for L...