New World cutaneous leishmaniasis was the most common cause of admission among nonfebrile patients (18 [9%]). Diarrheal diseases accounted for only 11% of admissions. Regarding destination ...

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a disease with cosmopolitan distribution caused by the protozoon Leishmania infantum (Akhoundi et al., 2016). It is a matter of zoonotic concern, given that it is ...

Also known as kala-azar, visceral leishmaniasis is a life-threatening parasitic disease that causes prolonged fever, extreme fatigue, weight loss, and enlargement of the spleen and liver.

It was almost hard to keep up with his survey of breakthroughs: on H.I.V., on tuberculosis, but also on more obscure and neglected diseases like lymphatic filariasis and visceral leishmaniasis.

Objectives: To undertake a detailed, large scale epidemiological study of match injuries sustained by professional rugby union players in order to define their incidence, nature, severity, and causes.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) has substantial epidemiological and clinical differences depending on host characteristics, Leishmania species and geographic areas. CL in Rio de Janeiro State was ...

The Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology Program (BBE) supplies the statistical and mathematical modeling expertise needed within Fred Hutch’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division to ...

Around 1 in 2 people in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, despite an estimated 40% of cancers being potentially preventable. However, the evidence base around the carcinogenic ...

But (according to the Daily Mail), the NIAID did admit to funding a separate study in Tunisia that used beagles to test a new vaccine for leishmaniasis. The study involved dogs immunized with the ...

Ovarian cancer is the 6th most common cancer in females in the UK, accounting for 4% of all new cancer cases in females (2017-2019). In females and males combined, ovarian cancer is the 16th most ...