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  2. Leishmaniasis - Wikipedia

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    Leishmaniasis is a wide array of clinical manifestations caused by protozoal parasites of the Trypanosomatida genus Leishmania. [7] It is generally spread through the bite of phlebotomine sandflies, Phlebotomus and Lutzomyia, and occurs most frequently in the tropics and sub-tropics of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and southern Europe.

  3. Visceral leishmaniasis - Wikipedia

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    Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar (Hindi: kālā āzār, "black sickness") [2] or "black fever", is the most severe form of leishmaniasis and, without proper diagnosis and treatment, is associated with high fatality. [3] Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania.

  4. Leishmania - Wikipedia

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    Leishmania / l iː ʃ ˈ m eɪ n i ə,-ˈ m æ n-/ [1] is a parasitic protozoan, a single-celled organism of the genus Leishmania that is responsible for the disease leishmaniasis. [2] [3] [4] They are spread by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus in the Old World, and of the genus Lutzomyia in the New World.

  5. List of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    Medications are usually not needed as hand, foot, and mouth disease is a viral disease that typically resolves on its own. Under research [15] [16] Sin Nombre virus: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) No Heartland virus: Heartland virus disease No Helicobacter pylori: Helicobacter pylori infection No Escherichia coliO157:H7, O111 and O104:H4

  6. Kala azar in India - Wikipedia

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    Kala-azar (Hindustani: काला आज़ार کالا آزار kālā āzār), is derived from kala which means black in Sanskrit, as well as in the languages descended from it, including Hindi and Urdu; [5] the word azar is a Persian loanword in Hindustani that means "fever"; [6] [7] as such the disease is named for the darkening of the skin on the extremities and abdomen that occurs ...

  7. List of diseases spread by arthropods - Wikipedia

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    Pogosta disease Synonyms: Karelian fever Ockelbo disease Sindbis fever: Mosquito: Sindbis virus: Skin rash, fever, in severe cases - arthritis: Scandinavia, France, Russia: unknown Rickettsial diseases: Typhus rickettsialpox Boutonneuse fever African tick bite fever Rocky Mountain spotted fever etc. Tick, mite, lice: Rickettsia species (bacteria)

  8. Category:Bacterial diseases - Wikipedia

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    A list of articles about infectious diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria Subcategories ... Biliary fever; ... List of clinically important bacteria; List of ...

  9. List of clinically important bacteria - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of bacteria that are significant in medicine. For viruses, ... List of bacteria genera; List of human diseases associated with infectious pathogens