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| Title: | Therapeutics |
| Issue Date: | Jun-2004 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| Abstract: | Leishmania spp. are intracellular parasitic haemoflagellates that infect
macrophages of the skin and viscera to produce disease in their vertebrate
hosts. Three major clinical manifestations of leishmaniasis are
recognized: visceral, cutaneous and muco- cutaneous leishmaniasis. The
disease usually presents as fever, weight loss and hepato-splenomegaly with
biochemical abnormalities of hyper- -globulinemia
and pancytopenia. It has received increasing attention in developed countries
because of the growing number of cases seen in AIDS patients and the occurrence
of viescerotropic L. tropica disease among Persian Gulf war participants. |
| Page(s): | 183-187 |
| ISSN: | 0975-1092 (Online); 0972-592X (Print) |
| Source: | NPR Vol.3(3) [May-June 2004]
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