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Leishmaniasis: Public health aspects and control
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This article is published in Clinics in Dermatology.The article was published on 1996-09-01. It has received 637 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public health & Leishmaniasis.read more
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Leishmaniasis Worldwide and Global Estimates of Its Incidence
Jorge Alvar,Iván D. Vélez,Iván D. Vélez,Caryn Bern,Mercè Herrero,Philippe Desjeux,Jorge Cano,Jean Jannin,Margriet den Boer +8 more
TL;DR: Visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis incidence ranges were estimated by country and epidemiological region based on reported incidence, underreporting rates if available, and the judgment of national and international experts.
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Leishmaniasis: current situation and new perspectives.
TL;DR: Research for leishmaniasis has been more and more focusing on the development of new tools such as diagnostic tests, drugs and vaccines, and the newly available control tools should allow a scaling up of control activities in priority areas.
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The increase in risk factors for leishmaniasis worldwide.
TL;DR: Increasing risk factors are making leishmaniasis a growing public health concern for many countries around the world, and some are related to a specific eco-epidemiological entity, others affect all forms of leish maniasis.
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Diagnostics for the developing world.
TL;DR: Although 'diseases of affluence' are increasing in developing countries, infectious diseases still impose the greatest health burden and simple, accurate and stable diagnostic tests are essential to combat these diseases.
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Visceral leishmaniasis : current status of control, diagnosis, and treatment, and a proposed research and development agenda
Philippe J Guerin,Philippe J Guerin,Piero Olliaro,Piero Olliaro,Shyam Sundar,Marleen Boelaert,Simon L. Croft,Philippe Desjeux,Monique Wasunna,Anthony Bryceson +9 more
TL;DR: The current situation and perspectives for diagnosis, treatment, and control of visceral leishmaniasis are reviewed, and some priorities for research and development are listed.
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Selective primary health care. An interim strategy for disease control in developing countries.
TL;DR: A program of selective primary health care is compared with other approaches and suggested as the most cost-effective form of medical intervention in the least developed countries.
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New Perspectives on a Subclinical Form of Visceral Leishmaniasis
Roberto Badaró,T. C. Jones,Edgar M. Carvalho,Diana P. Sampaio,Steven G. Reed,Aldina Barral,R. Teixeira,Warren D. Johnson +7 more
TL;DR: During an epidemiological study of visceral leishmaniasis in an endemic region of Brazil, new perspectives emerged on a subclinical form of the disease, where a group of 86 children with antibody to Leishmania were identified.
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Estimation of population at risk of infection and number of cases of Leishmaniasis
TL;DR: The methods by which the estimates have been made are specified so that they, as well as the estimates themselves, may be criticized and modified with some degree of objectivity.
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Practical progress and new drugs for changing patterns of leishmaniasis.
P.L. Olliaro,A.D.M. Bryceson +1 more
TL;DR: An increase in travel, the Indian and Sudanese epidemics of visceral leishmaniasis, parasite resistance to antimony and the emergence of AIDS-related leish maniasis have all increased the urgency for new drugs, and led to reappraisals of the old ones, as discussed here.
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Reciprocal relationships between undernutrition and the parasitic disease visceral leishmaniasis.
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that undernutrition is associated with the development of clinically apparent visceral leishmaniasis and that the disease itself has a profound effect on nutritional status, resulting in loss of both muscle and fat, effects that possibly are mediated by interleukin-1 and/or other factors produced by Leishmania donovani-infected macrophages.