Abstract: Brazil is a country with a high prevalence of infectious diseases such as leprosy and leishmaniasis. However, coinfection of these diseases is still poorly understood. We report a case of a patient who presented with lepromatous leprosy and cutaneous-mucosal leishmaniasis at the same period. Af...
Las lesiones en la cavidad oral son un motivo de consulta frecuente en la edad pediátrica y un amplio número de enfermedades pueden manifestarse de esta manera. El enfoque adecuado del paciente permite establecer el diagnóstico y orientar el tratamiento. Entre las condiciones asociadas a úlceras úni...
En Bolivia se ha podido evidenciar la circulación de 5 especies de parásitos de Leishmania: L (V.) braziliensis; L (V.) lainsoni; L (V.) guyanensis;L (L) amazonensis y Leishmania (L) chagasi. El compromiso mucoso es producida principalmente por agentes que pertenecen al complejo Leishmania (Viannia) br...
Purpose. To develop an animal model for studying mucocutaneous leishmaniasis. Methods. The hind footpad of C57B1/6j inbred mice was experimentally infected with 10(7) Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis promastigote and the skin was studied through ligh and electron transmission microscopy and immunohist...
Com o objetivo de elucidar a epidemiologia da leishmaniose tegumentar na regiäo do Vale do Ribeira, várias investigaçöes foram realizadas sobre a transmissäo, enfatizando-se o papel vetorial desenvolvido pelos flebotomíneos. Para isso, a análise envolveu duas fases distintas, uma referente a compo...