P DesjeuxSummaryAffiliation: World Health Organization Country: Switzerland Publications
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Leishmania/HIV co-infections: epidemiology in EuropeP Desjeux
Strategy Development and Monitoring of Zoonoses, Foodborne Diseases and Kinetoplastidae, Department of Control, Prevention and Eradication ZFK CPE, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, CH 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Ann Trop Med Parasitol 97:3-15. 2003..The parasites and HIV may also be transmitted as the result of needle-sharing among intravenous-drug users...- Leishmaniasis: current situation and new perspectivesP Desjeux
Department of Control, Prevention and Elimination CDS CPE, Cluster of Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization WHO, Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis 27:305-18. 2004..The newly available control tools should allow a scaling up of control activities in priority areas. In anthroponotic foci, the feasibility of getting a strong impact on mortality, morbidity and transmission, is high... - Treatment of Mediterranean visceral leishmaniasisL Gradoni
Laboratorio di Parassitologia, , Rome, Italy
Bull World Health Organ 73:191-7. 1995.... - The increase in risk factors for leishmaniasis worldwideP Desjeux
Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Response, Epidemic Disease Control, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 95:239-43. 2001..While some risk factors are related to a specific eco-epidemiological entity, others affect all forms of leishmaniasis. Risk factors are reviewed here entity by entity... - [Therapeutic options for visceral leishmaniasis]P Desjeux
Institute for Oneworld Health (iOWH, 899, rue Jean de Gingins, 01220 Divonne, France
Med Mal Infect 35:S74-6. 2005 - Treatment of visceral leishmaniasis in south-eastern Nepal: decreasing efficacy of sodium stibogluconate and need for a policy to limit further declineS Rijal
B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 97:350-4. 2003..These findings indicate that the spread of resistance to antimonials is already taking place in Nepal and that a policy to control further spread should be urgently implemented... - Evaluation of a urinary antigen-based latex agglutination test in the diagnosis of kala-azar in eastern NepalS Rijal
B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal
Trop Med Int Health 9:724-9. 2004.... - Treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis among travellersJ Blum
Swiss Tropical Institute, Socinstrasse 57, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
J Antimicrob Chemother 53:158-66. 2004..An overview of published treatment options and a treatment recommendation is given for each of the most important species. The level of evidence of the studies leading to these recommendations is given... - Parasitic diseases and urban developmentK E Mott
Division of Control of Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Bull World Health Organ 68:691-8. 1990..As the urban health services must deal with the rise in parasitic diseases, appropriate control strategies for the urban setting must be developed and implemented... - Prospective evaluation and comparison of the direct agglutination test and an rK39-antigen-based dipstick test for the diagnosis of suspected kala-azar in NepalF Chappuis
Department of Community Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
Trop Med Int Health 8:277-85. 2003..The rK39 dipstick is cheaper and easier to use than the DAT and could be used widely provided that both its performance and production remain stable... - Emerging Leishmania/HIV co-infection in AfricaD Wolday
Ethio-Netherlands AIDS Research Project at the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute, Addis Ababa
Med Microbiol Immunol 190:65-7. 2001..Moreover, the number of cases of co-infection is expected to rise in Africa owing to the simultaneous spread of the two infectious diseases and their increasingly overlapping geographical distribution... - [Co-infections of leishmania/HIV in south Europe]P Desjeux
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Med Trop (Mars) 61:187-93. 2001..The risk of co-infected patients, as carriers of Leishmania in the blood, to be a source of infection for the sandfly, has been recently confirmed. Moreover intravenous drug users also transmit the disease through the sharing of needles... - Cost-effectiveness of competing diagnostic-therapeutic strategies for visceral leishmaniasisM Boelaert
Unit of Epidemiology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
Bull World Health Organ 77:667-74. 1999..The use of a sensitive serological test such as the DAT is recommended as the basis of test-treatment strategies for visceral leishmaniasis in areas where the disease is endemic... - New geographical approaches to control of some parasitic zoonosesK E Mott
Division of Control of Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Bull World Health Organ 73:247-57. 1995..Geographical information systems (GIS) open a completely new perspective for intersectoral collaboration in adapting new technology to promote control of these diseases... - Diagnostic tests for kala-azar: a multi-centre study of the freeze-dried DAT, rK39 strip test and KAtex in East Africa and the Indian subcontinentM Boelaert
Epidemiology and Disease Control Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 102:32-40. 2008..FD-DAT and rK39 can be recommended for clinical practice on the Indian subcontinent. In East Africa, their clinical use should be carefully monitored. More work is needed to improve existing formats, and to develop better VL diagnostics...