Leishmaniasis: current situation and new perspectives.

By P. Desjeux. Comparative Immunology, Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2004

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Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. S. Sundar
2. F. Chappuis
3. J. Alvar
4. P. Desjeux
5. L. Gradoni
6. L. Bichaud
7. R. Charrel
8. M. Feliciangeli

Citations in the corpus

• Visceral leishmaniasis: what are the needs for diagnosis, treatment and control? (2007, background): “There are an estimated 500,000 new cases of VL and more than 50,000 deaths from the disease each yea”
• Urbanisation and infectious diseases in a globalised world (2011, background): “77 Visceral leishmaniasis has become an important issue in several Latin American cities including Teresina, Belo Horizonte, São Luis, and Salvador de Bahia in Brazil.”
• Directions for the diagnosis, clinical staging, treatment and prevention of canine leishmaniosis. (2009, background): “The estimated incidence is 2 million new cases per year, 0.5 million of VL and l.5 million of CL (Desjeux, 2004).”
• Phlebotomine sandflies and the spreading of leishmaniases and other diseases of public health concern (2013, background): “transmission cycles are causing an increase in numbers of cases in parts of northern and sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East (Desjeux, 2004).”
• Rodent-borne diseases and their risks for public health (2009, background): “There are 1–1.5 million new cases of cutaneous leishamaniasis each year (Desjeux 2004) of which more than 90% occur in Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Syria, in the ‘Old World,’ and Brazil and Peru in the ‘New World’ (Hepburn 2000).”
• Leishmaniasis Worldwide and Global Estimates of Its Incidence (2012, background): “Reported leishmaniasis case figures are widely acknowledged to represent gross underestimates of the true burden, but studies that measure the degree of underreporting are rare [23].”