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LEISHMANIASIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies
Synonyms:
kala azar; leishmaniasis; leishmaniosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("leishmaniasis" is a kind of...):
protozoal infection (any infection caused by a protozoan)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leishmaniasis"):
Assam fever; dumdum fever; kala-azar; visceral leishmaniasis (leishmaniasis of the viscera)
Aleppo boil; cutaneous leishmaniasis; Delhi boil; Old World leishmaniasis; oriental sore; tropical sore (leishmaniasis of the skin; characterized by ulcerative skin lesions)
American leishmaniasis; leishmaniasis americana; mucocutaneous leishmaniasis; nasopharyngeal leishmaniasis; New World leishmaniasis (a form of leishmaniasis endemic in Mexico and Central American and South America; sores are limited to the skin and mucosa)
Context examples:
Considered a neglected disease, leishmaniasis is endemic in 98 countries and causes 70,000 deaths a year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
(Study uncovers cause of aggressive leishmaniasis strain, SciDev.Net)
Cutaneous leishmaniasis causes skin ulcers; mucocutaneous leishmaniasis causes destructive lesions of the mucous membranes of the nose, mouth, and throat; visceral leishmaniasis is the most severe form of the disease and is manifested with anemia, weight loss, hepatomegaly and splenomegaly.
(Leishmaniasis, NCI Thesaurus)
Leishmaniasis affecting the skin.
(Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, NCI Thesaurus)
Old World leishmaniasis is separated into three distinct types according to epidemiology and clinical manifestations and is caused by species of the L. tropica and L. aethiopica complexes as well as by species of the L. major genus.
(Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Leishmaniasis is found in parts of about 88 countries.
(Leishmaniasis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Leishmaniasis is caused by protozoan Leishmania parasites which are transmitted by the bite of infected female phlebotomine sandflies.
(Study uncovers cause of aggressive leishmaniasis strain, SciDev.Net)
Biologist Dario Zamboni, of the University of São Paulo's Ribeirão Preto Medical School, said: Our study demonstrates that the presence of the virus increases by at least three times the possibility of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, which destroys and disfigures a patient’s face.
(Study uncovers cause of aggressive leishmaniasis strain, SciDev.Net)
After six years of research, Brazilian scientists have discovered that the presence of the Leishmania RNA virus in disease-carrying parasites leads to more aggressive forms of leishmaniasis, a discovery they say opens the way to new treatments.
(Study uncovers cause of aggressive leishmaniasis strain, SciDev.Net)
