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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.
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.
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.
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
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 ...
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)
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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