co-infection of leishmania and tuberculosis

Leishmania and HIV co-infection: dermatological manifestations.

Leishmania species can cause a wide spectrum of cutaneous disease in HIV-positive patients: asymptomatic, localized cutaneous, mucosal, muco-cutaneous, diffuse cutaneous or post-kala-azar leishmaniasis. In such cases, which are usually severely immunocompromised, the leishmanial parasites reach the skin of the human host by dissemination after either a new infection (resulting from the bite of ...

Diagnosis & management of leishmania/HIV co-infection.

Leishmaniasis, a globally prevalent parasitic disease occurs in three forms viz., visceral, cutaneous and mucocutaneous, transmitted by the bite of infected female Phlebotomus sandflies. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) has 100 per cent fatality rate, if left untreated. India has the largest burden of this disease. HIV infection is also increasing worldwide and several reports indicate rising trend ...

Tuberculosis and HIV Co-Infection

Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV co-infections place an immense burden on health care systems and pose particular diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Infection with HIV is the most powerful known risk factor predisposing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and progression to active disease, which increases the risk of latent TB reactivation 20-fold. TB is also the most common cause of AIDS-rel...

Tuberculosis/hiv Co-infection

Tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/ AIDS) constitute the main burden of infectious disease in resource-limited countries. Estimates by the World Health Orgnisation (WHO) indicate that there are more than nine million new active cases of TB and close to two million deaths per year and 2.6 million new cases of HIV infection and 1.8 million ...

Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection in children

UNLABELLED HIV is the top and tuberculosis is the second leading cause of death from infectious disease worldwide, with an estimated 8.7 million incident cases of tuberculosis and 2.5 million new HIV infections annually. The World Health Organization estimates that HIV prevalence among children with tuberculosis, in countries with moderate to high prevalence, ranges from 10 to 60%. The mechanis...

[Co-infection HIV/Leishmania: a serious problem of Public Health].