Two Women Presenting Worsening Cutaneous Ulcers during Pregnancy: Diagnosis, Immune Response, and Follow-up

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Conceição Silva, Fátima ^a   Morgado, Fernanda Nazaré ^a   Pimentel, Maria Inês Fernandes ^b   de Vasconcellos, Erica de Camargo Ferreira e ^b   Schubach, Armando O ^b   Valete Rosalino, Cláudia M ^b,c   Kropf, Pascale ^d   Müller, Ingrid ^d  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIMONY; ARGINASE; ARGININE; CD68 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 10; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MEGLUMINE ANTIMONATE; MILTEFOSINE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ADULT; AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CASE REPORT; CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; EPITHELIZATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPIGMENTATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; MACROPHAGE; METASTASIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PUNCH BIOPSY; SKIN FIBROSIS; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SKIN ULCER; SPOROTRICHOSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-10; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MICROSCOPY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SKIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892769387     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002472     Document Type: Article

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