Leishmaniasis: current status of vaccine development

E Handman - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2001 - Am Soc Microbiol
Leishmaniae are obligatory intracellular protozoa in mononuclear phagocytes. They cause a
spectrum of diseases, ranging in severity from spontaneously healing skin lesions to fatal …

Leishmaniasis in Turkey

ÜZ Ok, İC Balcıoğlu, AT Özkan, S Özensoy, Y Özbel - Acta tropica, 2002 - Elsevier
Leishmaniases are widespread in most countries in the Mediterranean basin, including
Turkey. Two forms are observed in Turkey; Leishmania infantum is responsible from visceral …

A Real-Time ITS1-PCR Based Method in the Diagnosis and Species Identification of Leishmania Parasite from Human and Dog Clinical Samples in Turkey

SO Toz, G Culha, FY Zeyrek, H Ertabaklar… - PLoS neglected …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Human visceral leishmaniasis (VL) caused by L. infantum and cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL)
caused by L. tropica and L. infantum have been reported in Turkey. L. infantum is also …

[PDF][PDF] Serodiagnosis and epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis in Turkey.

S Ozensoy, Y Ozbel, N Turgay, MZ Alkan… - The American journal …, 1998 - academia.edu
Infantile Mediterranean visceral leishmaniasis (IVL) and anthroponotic cutaneous
leishmaniasis (ACL) have long been known to exist in the western and southeastern Turkey …

Seroepidemiology of leptospirosis, toxoplasmosis, and leishmaniosis among dogs in Ankara, Turkey

Ö Aslantaş, V Özdemir, S Kiliç, C Babür - Veterinary parasitology, 2005 - Elsevier
Seroprevalence of five different Leptospira interrogans serovars, Toxoplasma gondii and
Leishmania infantum in stray dogs in Ankara was investigated. A total of 116 dog sera …

Distribution and altitudinal structuring of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in southern Anatolia, Turkey: their relation to human cutaneous leishmaniasis

FM Simsek, B Alten, SS Caglar, Y Ozbel… - Journal of Vector …, 2007 - BioOne
ABSTRACT The two Old World genera, Phlebotomus and Sergentomyia, were both
recorded in southern Anatolia in Turkey. Phlebotomus species predominated and comprised …

Analysis of the humoral immune response against total and recombinant antigens of Leishmania infantum: correlation with disease progression in canine …

CG Nieto, M Garcıa-Alonso, JM Requena… - Veterinary Immunology …, 1999 - Elsevier
Leishmaniasis by Leishmania infantum in the Mediterranean Basin constitutes an important
problem in both human and veterinary medicine. Based in both the importance of canids as …

Multicomponent chimeric antigen for serodiagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis

M Soto, JM Requena, L Quijada… - Journal of Clinical …, 1998 - Am Soc Microbiol
In this work, we describe the assembly of a synthetic gene coding for several antigenic
determinants found in different Leishmania infantum antigens. Selected epitopes were …

Development of Recombinant Chimeric Antigen Expressing Immunodominant B Epitopes of Leishmania infantum for Serodiagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis

A Boarino, A Scalone, L Gradoni… - Clinical and Vaccine …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
Wild canids and domestic dogs are the main reservoir of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis
(VL) caused by Leishmania infantum (syn.: Leishmania chagasi). Serological diagnosis of …

[HTML][HTML] Childhood cutaneous leishmaniasis: report of 117 cases from Iran

SA Talari, R Talaei, G Shajari, Z Vakili… - The Korean journal of …, 2006 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), due to Leishmania major, is endemic in different parts of Iran
and has long been recognized in most provinces of Iran. This study was conducted to …