There are several different forms of leishmaniasis in people. Leishmaniasis is a vectorborne disease that is transmitted by sand flies and caused by obligate intracellular protozoa of the genus leishmania. Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease caused by the leishmania parasite. Leishmaniasis red book 2015 red book online aap point.
The number of cases is estimated at about 12 millions, with 1. Anderson freitas caroline nascimento giovanna dutra raylane anunciacao yuri barreto 2. Leishmaniasis is a vectorborne disease that is transmitted by sandflies and caused by obligate intracellular protozoa of the genus leishmania. Leishmaniasis map leishmaniases a complex of diseases that are caused by parasites of the leishmania family leishmaniases are a worldwide problem. August 2017 importance leishmaniasis is an important complex of protozoal vectorborne diseases that affects both humans and animals. Mucosal leishmaniasis typically is caused by species in the viannia subgenus especially l v braziliensis but also l v panamensis and sometimes l v guyanensis. This parasite typically lives in infected sand flies. You can contract leishmaniasis from a bite of an infected sand fly. It is characterized by irregular bouts of fever, substantial weight loss, swelling of the spleen and liver, and anaemia. Download as ppt, pdf, txt or read online from scribd.
About 350 million people in 88 countries are at risk. Most cases of visceral leishmaniasis are caused by leishmania donovani or leishmania infantum leishmania chagasi is synonymous. Leishmania is a genus of trypanosomatid protozoa, and is the parasite responsible for the disease leishmaniasis. Human infection is caused by about 21 of 30 species that infect mammals. Leishmaniasis cutaneous and visceral kalaazar, black fever, dumdum fever, oriental sore, tropical sore, uta, visceral chiclero ulcer, aleppo boi, pian bois. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license.
Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that is found in parts of the tropics, subtropics, and southern europe. Cutaneous leishmaniasis typically is caused by old world species leishmania tropica, leishmania major, and leishmania aethiopica and by new world species leishmania mexicana. Faria, 2007a maioria dasleishmaniosessao zoonosesimportanciaem saudepublica 8. Leishmaniasis is caused by infection with leishmania parasites, which are spread by the bite of phlebotomine sand flies. It is classified as a neglected tropical disease ntd. The genus leishmania was created by ross in 1903 to include leishmania donovani, the parasite causing indian kalaazar. In the human host, leishmania species are obligate intracellular parasites of mononuclear phagocytes.
To date, approximately 20 leishmania species in the leishmania and viannia subgenera are known to infect humans. Life cycle of the parasites from the genus leishmania, the cause of the disease leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis enfermedades infecciosas manual msd version. Visceral leishmaniasis also known as kalaazar, is the most severe from of the disease, which, if untreated, has a mortality rate of almost 100%. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page.