Epidemiologic and immunologic findings for the subclinical form of Leishmania braziliensis infection
| Autor: | P. Almeida Roque, B. Araújo Clarissa, Bacellar Olívia, Araújo Cibele, Follador Ivonise, M. Carvalho Edgar, P. Carvalho Lucas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
| Předmět: |
Microbiology (medical)
Adult Leishmaniasis Mucocutaneous Male Asymptomatic Sensitivity and Specificity Leishmania braziliensis Serology Disease Outbreaks Immune system Cutaneous leishmaniasis medicine Animals Humans Subclinical infection biology business.industry Leishmaniasis Intradermal Tests medicine.disease Leishmania biology.organism_classification Infectious Diseases Immunology Female medicine.symptom business Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 34(11) |
| ISSN: | 1537-6591 |
| Popis: | The epidemiologic and immunologic findings for 104 subjects with subclinical Leishmania braziliensis infection were compared with those for 29 patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) from the same area of endemicity. Subjects had a positive leishmania skin test result and remained asymptomatic during the next 4 years of follow-up were considered to have subclinical infection. Patients with CL were younger, had larger-diameter indurations after skin testing, and were more likely to have positive serologic markers than were those with subclinical infection (P |
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