Kidney involvement in leishmaniasis—a review

Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease caused by protozoa of the genus Leishmania transmitted by insects of the genus Lutzomyia sp. or Phlebotomus sp. The main syndromes are cutaneous leishmaniasis, mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) and post-kala-azar dermal leishmanias...

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Autores principales: da Silva Junior, Geraldo Bezerra, Guardão Barros, Elvino José, De Francesco Daher, Elizabeth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2014
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9427481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24690431
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjid.2013.11.013
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Sumario:Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease caused by protozoa of the genus Leishmania transmitted by insects of the genus Lutzomyia sp. or Phlebotomus sp. The main syndromes are cutaneous leishmaniasis, mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) and post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis. This article reviews kidney involvement in cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis, highlighting the aspects of their pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, histopathological findings, outcome and treatment.

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