Diagnosis, Diagnostics, Immunodiagnosis & Immunodiagnostics:

14734.  Kurkjian KM, Mahmutovic AJ, Kellar KL, Haque R, Bern C, Secor WE. Multiplex analysis of circulating cytokines in the sera of patients with different clinical forms of visceral leishmaniasis. Cytometry A. 2006 May;69(5):353-8.

14735.  Ansari NA, Saluja S, Salotra P. Elevated levels of interferon-gamma, interleukin-10, and interleukin-6 during active disease in Indian kala azar. Clin Immunol. 2006 Jun;119(3):339-45.

Pathogenesis:

14736.  Sakru N, Ozensoy Toz S, Korkmaz M, Kavakli T, Alkan MZ, Ozbel Y. The infection risk of visceral leishmaniasis among household members of active patients. Parasitol Int. 2006 Jun;55(2):131-3.

Vaccines:

14737.  Michel MY, Fathy FM, Hegazy EH, Hussein ED, Eissa MM, Said DE. The  djuvant effects of IL-12 and BCG on autoclaved Leishmania major vaccine in experimental cutaneous leishmaniasis. J Egypt Soc Parasitol. 2006 Apr;36(1):159-76, following 76.

14738.  Titus RG, Bishop JV, Mejia JS. The immunomodulatory factors of arthropod saliva and the potential for these factors to serve as vaccine targets to prevent pathogen transmission. Parasite Immunol. 2006 Apr;28(4):131-41. Review.

Therapy:

14739.  Hadighi R, Mohebali M, Boucher P, Hajjaran H, Khamesipour A, Ouellette M. Unresponsiveness to Glucantime treatment in Iranian cutaneous leishmaniasis due to drug-resistant Leishmania tropica parasites. PLoS Med. 2006 May;3(5):e162.

14740.  Hartzell JD, Aronson NE, Nagaraja S, Whitman T, Hawkes CA, Wortmann G. Varicella zoster virus meningitis complicating sodium stibogluconate treatment for cutaneous leishmaniasis. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2006 Apr;74(4):591-2.

14741.  Kuryshev YA, Wang L, Wible BA, Wan X, Ficker E. Antimony-based antileishmanial compounds prolong the cardiac action potential by an increase in cardiac calcium currents. Mol Pharmacol. 2006 Apr;69(4):1216-25. 

14742.  Ozkan U, Oguzkurt L, Tercan F, Tokmak N. Percutaneous transhepatic hrombolysis in the treatment of acute portal venous thrombosis. Diagn Interv Radiol. 2006 Jun;12(2):105-7.

14743.  Rojas R, Valderrama L, Valderrama M, Varona MX, Ouellette M, Saravia NG. Resistance to antimony and treatment failure in human Leishmania (Viannia) infection. J Infect Dis. 2006 May 15;193(10):1375-83.

14744.  Schwartz E, Hatz C, Blum J. New world cutaneous leishmaniasis in travellers. Lancet Infect Dis. 2006 Jun;6(6):342-9. Review.