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Infections > Vector Borne Diseases > Leishmaniasis
Infections > Skin Diseases, Infectious > Skin Diseases, Parasitic > Leishmaniasis
Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases > Skin Diseases > Skin Diseases, Infectious > Skin Diseases, Parasitic > Leishmaniasis
Infections > Parasitic Diseases > Skin Diseases, Parasitic > Leishmaniasis
Infections > Parasitic Diseases > Protozoan Infections > Euglenozoa Infections > Leishmaniasis

Preferred term

Leishmaniasis  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Infection, Leishmania
  • Infections, Leishmania
  • Leishmania Infection
  • Leishmania Infections

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics; coordinate with NEGLECTED DISEASES if pertinent; LEISHMANIASIS, AMERICAN see LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS is also available; tegumentary leishmaniasis = LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS

Scope note

  • A disease caused by any of a number of species of protozoa in the genus LEISHMANIA. There are four major clinical types of this infection: cutaneous (Old and New World) (LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS), diffuse cutaneous (LEISHMANIASIS, DIFFUSE CUTANEOUS), mucocutaneous (LEISHMANIASIS, MUCOCUTANEOUS), and visceral (LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL).

In other languages

  • leishmaniaasi

    Finnish

  • leishmaniasis
  • leishmaniasis non specificata
  • leishmanioosi
  • leishmanios
  • leishmaniosis
  • määrittämätön leishmaniaasi
  • ospecificerad leishmanios
  • Leishmania-infektion

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007896

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