ListarFacultad de Medicina, Enfermería, Nutrición y Tecnología Médica por tema "LEISHMANIASIS CUTÁNEA"
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A new focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania amazonensis in a Sub Andean region of Bolivia
(Acta Tropica, 1988)Abstract We detected a new outbreak focus with high incidence of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Sub Andean region of La Paz. This area was never considered previously as an endemic zone of leishmaniasis. Leishmania stocks ... -
Antileishmanial activity of a tetralone isolated from ampelocera edentula, a Bolivian plant used as a treatment for cutaneous Leishmaniasis
(PLANTA MÉDICA, 1994)Abstract. The stem bark of Ampelocera edentula Kuhlm. (Ulmaceae) is used by the Chimanes Indians from Bolivia for the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by the protozoan Leishmania braziliensis. A chloroform ... -
Biological and chemical studies of Pera benensis, a Bolivian plant used in folk medicine as a treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis
(Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1992)The stem barks of Pera benensis are employed by the Chimane Indians in the Bolivian Amazonia as treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by the protozoan Leishmania braziliensis. The chloroform extracts containing ... -
Clinical healing of antimony-resistant cutaneous or mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis following the combined administration of interferon-γ and pentavalent antimonials compounds
(Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1994)Abstract. In an open trial, longer courses of pentavalent antimonials (Sbˇ) at sub-optimal doses (10 mg/kg body weight), in association with recombinant human interferon-γ (IFN-γ) (100 µg/m2 of body surface area) were ... -
Cryptic speciation in Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) Trapidoi (Fairchild & Hertic) (Diptera: Psychodidae) detected by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis
(Am. J. Trop Med. Hyg., 1996)Abstract Lutzomyia trapidoi is the major vector of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Ecuador. In the framework of an epidemiologic study, female Lu. trapidoi sand flies were captured on human bait in La Tablada and Paraiso ... -
Cutaneous leishmaniasis in French Guiana : a review
(Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 1990)Abstract. A review of a l0 year investigation carried out by various institutions on cutaneous leishmaniasis in French Guiana is presented, with emphasis on epidemiology, clinical aspects, and therapy. -
Epidemiological aspects of human cutaneous leishmaniasis in French Guiana
(Transantions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1989)Abstract. A follow-up study of 219 patients infected with parasitologically confirmed cutancous leishmaniasis in French Guiana was made between 1981 and 1987. Cutaneous leishmaniasis appeared to be common in young male ... -
Évaluation du coût socio-économique de la leishmaniose cutanée en Guyane française
(Rev. Epidém. et Santé Publ., 1991)Le coût socio-économique de la leishmaniose en Guyane française a été évalué par une enquête rétrospective ayant porté sur une période d'une année: 1979-80. Les éléments de coût chiffrables pris en compte ont été les ... -
Histopathologie de la Leishmaniose cutanéo-muqueuse a Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis
(Ann. Dermatol. Venereol., 1994)Résumé. Une étude histopathologique de la leishmaniose cutanéo-muqueuse à Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis est réalisée sur 28 biopsies cutanées et 114 biopsies muqueuses de patients d'origine bolivienne et péruvienne, ... -
Las leishmania de Bolivia I : Leishmania braziliensis en los departamentos de La Paz y Beni. Primeros aislamientos de cepas humanas y su caracterización enzimática
(Instituto Boliviano de Biología de la Altura, 1983)Resumen. Los autores efectuaron el estudio clínico, serológico y parasitológico en pacientes procedentes de diferentes zonas donde existe leishmaniasis cutánea y cutáneo-mucosa humana de los Departamentos de La Paz y del ... -
Leishmaniasis in Bolivia. II. The involvement of Psychodopygus Yucumensis and Psychodopygus LLanosMartinsi in the selvatic transmission lowland subandean region
(Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, 1986)An epidemiological survey of the vectors of cutaneous leishmaniasis ("espúndia" type) was carried out in the Alto Beni region of Bolivia, an area of Andean foothills at the Eastern limit of the Amazonian lowlands. The ... -
Leishmanicidal and trypanocidal activities of Bolivian medicinal plants
(Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1994)Abstract. Cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis are endemic diseases in South America, especially in the subandean areas of the humid lowlands of Bolivia. Fourteen plants used topically in folk medicine to treat ... -
Leishmaniose cutanea recidivante com alteraçoes ósseas : relato de um caso
(An Bras Dermatol, 1988)Resumo. Apresentamos um paciente de sexo masculino, de 23 anos de idade, com lesoes ulcerosas de leishmaniose recidivante em membros inferiores. Uma delas localizada no dorno so pé esquerdo, ao nível da regiao metatrso-falangiana ... -
Matrix remodelling and fibroblast phenotype in early lesions of human cutaneous Leishmaniasis
(Path. Res. Pract., 1991)SUMMARY. The connective matrix participates directly in early pathological events observed in the cutaneous lesion of leishmaniasis, due to Leishmania braziliensis guyanensis. A sample of 19 skin biopsies was examined ... -
Risk factors for onset of cutaneous and mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis in Bolivia
(American Journal Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1997)Abstract. A survival analysis was performed on data from an endemic area of Bolivia where two populations, natives and highland migrants, were living, to investigate risk factors for onset of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) ... -
The relationship of blood-group type to American cutaneous leishmaniasis
(Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 1989)The association of certain human blood groups with parasites is a controversial subject. In some cases positive correlations have been demonstrated, as in schistosomiasis (Pereira et al., 1979) and giardiasis (Barnes and ...