Conventional treatments for the condition, also known as kala-azar, take much longer and have a greater risk of side effects.
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Indian kala-azar patients have normal numbers of peripheral blood NK cells but impaired functional activity due to decreased binding and lysis of target cells.
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Forty-nine HIV-infected patients with visceralleishmaniasis were included in the study.
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Most studies of asymptomatic infection have been conducted in areas of endemic visceralleishmaniasis.
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India, Bangladesh, and Nepal agreed recently to undertake measures towards the elimination of visceralleishmaniasis.
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Among the protozoan zoonoses, most of the cases were reported in patients with visceralleishmaniasis.
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Cholestasis complicating severe sepsis and visceralleishmaniasis were excluded.
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PCR with peripheral blood is a reliable method for diagnosis of visceralleishmaniasis in HIV-infected patients.
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Conclusions: Cases of American visceralleishmaniasis spiked with a 5-year interval, and affected most under-five urban children.
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Objective: To study epidemiological and clinical aspects of American visceralleishmaniasis in hospitalized children in Ceará, Brazil.
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In 10 cases the diagnosis of visceralleishmaniasis was first made by biopsy of the gastrointestinal mucosa.
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis is not fatal although a less-common form, visceralleishmaniasis, can cause organ failure and death.
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The state of Bihar in India carries the largest share of the world's burden of antimony-resistant visceralleishmaniasis.
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We describe a case of visceralleishmaniasis and pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosed in a post-partum woman four days after delivery.
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We assessed the cost and cost-effectiveness of alternative strategies for the treatment of visceralleishmaniasis in the Indian subcontinent.
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We report a case of visceralleishmaniasis in a healthy patient with a non classical clinical evolution of the disease.
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We identified 10 cases of visceralleishmaniasis among the 52 patients with fever of unknown origin.
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Liposomes have been proposed as an effective way to target drugs at macrophages, which are the cells infected in visceralleishmaniasis.