Leishmaniasis
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Broader Terms
arthropod borne communicable disease, protozoal infection
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- The number of new cases of visceral leishmaniasis is thought to be about 500,000.
- The geographical distribution of leishmaniasis is limited by the distribution of the sandfly, its susceptibility to cold climates, its tendency to take blood from humans or animals only and its capacity to support the internal development of specific species of Leishmania.
- Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association June 15, 2000 AVMA Journals Home | JAVMA online Hunters hounded as leishmaniasis is diagnosed in Foxhounds DEAN J.
- Widespread in 22 countries in the New World and in 66 nations in the Old World, leishmaniasis is not found in South-east Asia.
- health-care providers should consider the possibility of CL in persons with chronic skin lesions who were deployed to Southwest/Central Asia or who were in other areas where leishmaniasis is endemic.
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