Abstract

MONTALVO ALVAREZ, Ana Margarita. Leishmaniasis:: Interesting features on exotic parasitism for Cuba. Rev Cubana Hig Epidemiol [online]. 2010, vol.48, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3003.

Leishmania is a parasitic protozoon causing Leishmaniasis, disease with a varied clinic presentation and a wide world distribution. WHO considers it as a non-controlled and re-emergent disease and its transmission patterns have been affected in past years by the human action among other features. Its diagnosis change according to the clinical way of presentation and nowadays it is recommended the identification of infectious species like a very useful feature to prescribe a appropriate treatment, to perform the clinical monitoring and the most important in epidemiologic studies including the vector and or reservoirs study. The timely treatment is until now one of the few available control measures since despite the efforts performed there isn't a vaccine against this affection. The aim of present paper is to present a literature review including significant features of Leishmaniasis in the present international context.

Keywords : Leishmania; Leishmaniasis; epidemiology.

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