Leishmaniasis

Leishmaniasis "The Sting of The Sand Fly" By Jared Yeazell Admittedly, since the beginning of time, disease has played a drastic role in the history of society. It has affected economic conditions, wars, and natural disasters. The impact of any disease can be far greater than some far better known catastrophes. In 1918, an epidemic of influenza swept the globe

people tend to take a lot for granted, such as: vaccinations, medications, availability of doctors’, or even the simple satisfaction of walking outside barefoot. Leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease also known as the sand fly disease, is caused by Leishmania parasites and is transmitted by the bite of infected sand flies. Leishmaniasis is both a subtropical and tropical disease found in over ninety countries. This disease ranges from the Western Hemisphere to the Eastern Hemisphere (Centers for

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Leishmaniasis is a parasitic infection that effects 15 to 20 million people globally each year. It is mainly found in the Tropics, Subtropics, and Southern Europe. Most infections are the result of the bite of an infected female sandfly, but it can also be delivered in vitro or by the use of contaminated needles. Leishmania are digenetic. This means that it requires two hosts to complete it's life cycle. For leishmania the two hosts are an invertebrate and an vertibrate. The female sand

Outline Scientific name: Leishmania in humans called Leishmaniasis Common name: Leishmania Spp. Taxonomic Classification: Genus of trypanosomes Complete life cycle: Human stages: 1) Sand fly injects promastigotes into the skin during a blood meal. Promastigotes are phagocytized by neutrophils that are rapidly recruited to the bite site 3) Infected neutrophils release the parasites which are then consumed by macrophages .4) Promastigotes transform into amastigotes inside macrophages. 5) Amastigotes

On her screen came a man’s hand. The wound on that hand was like what was in Tank’s hand. “It could be Leishmaniasis,” said the doctor. “What’s that?” Tank didn’t need anything else to drag him down further. “It’s the result of a bite from an infected sand fly. It’s prevalent in certain countries. Pakistan along with Africa tops the list. I’m going to send you

reliable target for molecular analysis of Leishmania Spp. 4,24,29,31,32. The conserved region of these mini-circles has been used as a diagnostic PCR target, since 1990s 33. The kDNA-PCR seems to be the most sensitive approach for diagnosis of leishmaniasis, suggested to be implemented as the standard method for routine diagnosis, if the identification of species is not required 34. In this study, despite the fact that all isolates belonged to different county in Ilam province, but all were positive

Abrany Morales PLT 300.02 Insects and Civilization Disease Term Paper Chikungunya Chikungunya is virus infection which is transmitted mainly by mosquitoes. This occurs when a mosquito feeds on an infected mosquito and becomes infected itself with the virus. From there on the people that the mosquito bites also become infected. In very rare occasions it has also been known for a mother to transfer the virus to her newborn around the time of birth but there have not been any cases where the virus

Leishmaniases, are parasitic diseases with a wide range of clinical symptoms: cutaneous, mucocutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis (Kravchenko et al., 2004). The most common form is Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, CL (Akhoundi et al., 2016). Two protozoan species Leishmania major and Leishmania tropica are important agents of CL throughout Pakistan. While Leishmania donovani causes Visceral Leishmaniasis mostly in upper northern regions of Pakistan such as Chitral (Rab et al., 1995 and Tanoli et al., 2005). Transmission

Leishmania is under the Phylum – Protozoa, the Sub – phylum – Plasmodroma, The Class – Mastigophora, the Order – Protomonadina, and the Genus – Leishmania (Pujari, 2014a). There are eleven Leishmania species L. aethiopica, L. tropical minor, L. tropica major, L. peruviana, L. mexicana mexicana, L. mexicana amazonensis, L. mexicana pifanoi, L. braziliensis, L. donovani donovani, L. donovani infantum, and L. donovani chagasi that can be contracted by vertebrates. The species of Leishmania do not differ