The First Case of Basal Cell Carcinoma in the Scar Fifty Years after Leishmanization.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a self-curing skin infection distributed in tropics and sub-tropics. Up to one million cases of CL appeared in endemic areas a year. Leishmanization (artificially controlled infections) was widely used to control cutaneous leishmaniasis in the past.

Extraordinary high level of propagation of in severe human babesiosis.

Babesias are obligate apicomplexan parasites that affect the red blood cells (RBCs) of animals. Humans can serve as accidental hosts for them. Asexual reproduction of a parasite occurs in a vertebrate host through asynchronous binary fission, yielding a complex pleomorphic population of intraerythrocytic forms.

Clinical tolerance and efficacy of anti-parasitic treatment with albendazole in patients with alveolar echinococcosis: long-term follow-up observation in 117 patients.

Alveolar echinococcosis is the most severe worm disease primarily detected in the liver. This study aimed to determine the clinical tolerance and efficacy of albendazole in patients with alveolar echinococcosis, depending on the volume of previous surgical treatment or its absence and the duration of anti-parasitic therapy. We retrospectively (over the last 15 years) analyzed the data of 117 patients, who were divided into 4 groups according to curability: R (radical resection), R (incomplete resection), N (unresectable), and R (recurrence).

The importance of uninterrupted albendazole treatment in patients with unresectable alveolar echinococcosis undergoing liver transplantation.

Background: This study focused on the monitoring of patients who had undergone liver transplantation (LT) because of unresectable alveolar echinococcosis (AE). The role of long-term administration of albendazole (ABZ) in patients with residual/recurrent AE lesions and without AE lesions was evaluated.

Methods: Albendazole therapy was prescribed to patients diagnosed with AE 4-6 weeks after LT on the background of continuous suppressive therapy while following the protocol for managing patients after LT.

Severe babesiosis caused by Babesia divergens in a host with intact spleen, Russia, 2018.

We report a case of severe babesiosis caused by the bovine pathogen Babesia divergens with the development of multisystem failure in a splenic host. Immunosuppression other than splenectomy can also predispose people to B. divergens.

Fatal human babesiosis caused by in an asplenic host.

We report a fatal case of human babesiosis caused by bovine pathogen in Russia. Falciparum malaria was falsely diagnosed due to the presence of small ring forms in the blood smear. Laboratory diagnosis can distinguish between babesiosis and malaria according to the examination of stained blood smears.