Sixty years of amphotericin B: an overview of the main antifungal agent used to treat invasive fungal infections

FB Cavassin, JL Baú-Carneiro, RR Vilas-Boas… - Infectious Diseases and …, 2021 - Springer
Introduced in the late 1950s, polyenes represent the oldest family of antifungal drugs. The
discovery of amphotericin B and its therapeutic uses is considered one of the most important …

Recent developments in drug discovery for leishmaniasis and human African trypanosomiasis

AS Nagle, S Khare, AB Kumar, F Supek… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that presents four main clinical syndromes: cutaneous
leishmaniasis (CL), mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL), visceral leishmaniasis/kala azar …

Diagnosis and treatment of leishmaniasis: clinical practice guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society of Tropical …

N Aronson, BL Herwaldt, M Libman… - Clinical infectious …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
It is important to realize that leishmaniasis guidelines cannot always account for individual
variation among patients. They are not intended to supplant physician judgment with respect …

An update on pharmacotherapy for leishmaniasis

S Sundar, J Chakravarty - Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Leishmaniasis broadly manifests as visceral leishmaniasis (VL), cutaneous
leishmaniasis (CL) and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis. The treatment of leishmaniasis is …

Leishmaniasis: an update of current pharmacotherapy

S Sundar, J Chakravarty - Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Leishmaniasis broadly manifests as visceral leishmaniasis (VL), cutaneous
leishmaniasis (CL) and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL). The treatment of VL is …

Treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis and insights into species-specific responses: a narrative review

RK Madusanka, H Silva, ND Karunaweera - Infectious diseases and …, 2022 - Springer
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a complex skin infection that has imposed a heavy burden
on many developing countries and is caused by more than 20 Leishmania species. This …

Liposomal amphotericin B as a treatment for human leishmaniasis

M Balasegaram, K Ritmeijer, MA Lima… - Expert opinion on …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease transmitted by phlebotomine sandflies.
Between 700,000 and 1.2 million cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis and between 200,000 …

Therapeutic options for old world cutaneous leishmaniasis and new world cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis

B Monge-Maillo, R López-Vélez - Drugs, 2013 - Springer
Estimated worldwide incidence of tegumentary leishmaniasis (cutaneous leishmaniasis [CL]
and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis [MCL]) is over 1.5 million cases per year in 82 countries …

Review of the clinical presentation, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of leishmaniasis

BA Mathison, BT Bradley - Laboratory Medicine, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne infection caused by kinetoplastid protozoans in the genera
Leishmania and Endotrypanum. The disease occurs worldwide in the tropics and subtropics …

[HTML][HTML] Cutaneous leishmaniasis: a neglected disfiguring disease for women

A Bilgic-Temel, DF Murrell, S Uzun - International journal of women's …, 2019 - Elsevier
Leishmaniasis is one of eight neglected tropical diseases currently endemic in 102
countries/areas around the world. In recent years, cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) has been …