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Cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
Leishmaniasis is endemic in 98 countries and territories, with 1.2 million new cases per year, making it a worldwide concern. The deadly visceral form is a leading cause of death from tropical parasitic infections, second only to malaria. Leishmaniasis appears to be increasing in many countries because of extended urbanization. The disease reservoir includes small mammals; parasite transmission occurs via bite of the female phlebotomine sandfly. Disease manifestations vary and largely depend upon the Leishmania species acquired.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology - November 14, 2015 Category: Dermatology Authors: Marc Z. Handler, Parimal A. Patel, Rajendra Kapila, Yasin Al-Qubati, Robert A. Schwartz Tags: Continuing medical education Source Type: research

Bedside diagnostics in dermatology
In addition to aiding the diagnosis of viral, bacterial, and fungal diseases, mineral oil preparation, Tzanck smear, and other techniques can be used to diagnose parasitic infections, neonatal pustular dermatoses, blistering diseases, Stevens –Johnson syndrome, and a plethora of other benign and malignant conditions, including granulomatous diseases and tumors. In many cases, these techniques are specific, reliable, and easy to perform and interpret. In others, a certain amount of training and expertise are required.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology - July 13, 2017 Category: Dermatology Authors: Robert G. Micheletti, Arturo R. Dominguez, Karolyn A. Wanat Tags: Continuing medical education Source Type: research

Global issues in allergy and immunology: Parasitic infections and allergy
Source: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology - November 1, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Continuing Medical Education examination Source Type: research

Impact of a cybertutor in dermatological teaching
ConclusionsAccording to this study, multimedia programs may be used for undergraduate education in Dermatology as a complementary educational tool. Contact with an instructor is still considered to be important and should be offered simultaneously.
Source: International Journal of Dermatology - April 4, 2013 Category: Dermatology Authors: Mariana Soirefmann, Cristiane Comparin, Juliana Boza, Chao Lung Wen, Tania Ferreira Cestari Tags: Education Source Type: research

Medical Misnomers are Murky: Time to Memorialize and Rename
Misnomers have dogged medical practice seemingly since its inception. They may arise out of initial misunderstanding of the underlying disease process, a fanciful personification of the disease itself, or simple confusion encountered early in the disease's discovery. Misnomers are not harmless. By increasing unneeded complexity, they add to challenges in medical education without increasing understanding. Practicing clinicians may experience difficulties in communicating with patients. For example, a diagnosis of “ringworm” may be made but the patient may not understand why an antiparasitic is not being prescribed, req...
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - September 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Richie Manikat, Sanjiv Chopra Tags: Review Source Type: research

Application of Efficient Data Cleaning Using Text Clustering for Semistructured Medical Reports to Large-Scale Stool Examination Reports: Methodology Study
Conclusions: Our data cleaning process based on the combinatorial use of key collision and nearest neighbor methods provides an efficient cleaning of large-scale text data and hence improves data accuracy.
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 8, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Hyunki Woo Kyunga Kim KyeongMin Cha Jin-Young Lee Hansong Mun Soo Jin Cho Ji In Chung Jeung Hui Pyo Kun-Chul Lee Mira Kang Source Type: research

PLN: Parasitic-Like Network for Barely Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
It is known that annotations for 3D medical image segmentation tasks are laborious, time-consuming and expensive. Considering the similarities existing in inter-slice and inter-volume, we believe that the delineation way and the model architecture should be tightly coupled. In this paper, by introducing an extremely sparse annotation way of labeling only one slice per 3D image, we investigate a novel barely-supervised segmentation setting with only a few sparsely-labeled images along with a large amount of unlabeled images. To achieve this goal, we present a new parasitic-like network including a registration module (as ho...
Source: IEE Transactions on Medical Imaging - March 1, 2023 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research

“Chagas Express XXI”: A new ArtScience social technology for health and science education—A case study in Brazilian endemic areas of Chagas disease with an active search of chronic cases
ConclusionsCE21 is a social technology potentially useful for health and science education and active search of asymptomatic CD chronic cases. Moreover, this technology may be adapted to understand and to cooperate in other potentially epidemic situations, especially NTDs related.
Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases - July 21, 2021 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Tania C. Araujo-Jorge Source Type: research

Top Ten Medical Research Issues and Trends to Watch in 2017
2016 will go down as a year that taught us to question our assumptions. The election of Donald Trump, an outcome almost no one predicted, left many with a sense of uncertainty about what 2017 will bring in the biomedical and health-care space. To bring clarity to these unsure times, FasterCures has compiled a list of issues critical to the future of medical innovation that we'll be tracking over the coming year. While some issues will be closely linked with the people and policies of the new presidential administration, we think all will be important to continuing the progress toward faster cures and treatments. 1. FDA...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - January 5, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news

Why are tapeworm carriers so difficult to find? A methodological proposal for their search and recovery
This study is aimed to find and evaluate T. solium carriers, describing some characteristics of these patients and the treatment. Taeniasis cases were searched for in various Mexican states from 1983 to 2016. Previous informed consent, tapeworm-carrier patients were administered with niclosamide and a saline purge. Parasite specimens were recovered and identified, both morphologically and by PCR. From 117 treated patients, Taenia sp. specimens were obtained from 46 subjects (47.8%). From these, complete parasites were recovered from 42 (90.5%), and only detached proglottids from 4 patients. Cases were more frequent in More...
Source: Experimental Parasitology - April 4, 2023 Category: Parasitology Authors: N Villalobos Martinez M J G Nu ñez M A Figueroa D A Flisser E Sciutto Source Type: research