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Any tropical skin infection or infestation can present as a primary condition or a secondary manifestation of disease elsewhere in the body. Some examples of the former are Madura foot, simple cutaneous leishmaniasis and cutaneous larva migrans, while the latter encompass systemic conditions such as leprosy, kala-azar and coccidioidomycosis. Cutaneous infections are commonly found in […]
Accurate and timely diagnosis of the tropic disease visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is one of the pillars for reducing VL deaths. Currently available serological tests for diagnosing VL vary widely in their performance and may, as a whole, be inadequate for VL diagnosis, researchers report in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Visceral leischmanisis is the most severe […]
The parasitic disease leishmaniasis is spread to humans through the bites of sandflies, and is endemic in a number of countries, including Brazil. Despite control efforts, the incidence of visceral leishmaniasis—the most severe form of the disease—rose in Brazil between 1990 and 2016, researchers have reported in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Leishmaniasis can be classified […]