Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease found in parts of southern Europe, the tropics, and the subtropics. Classified as a neglected tropical disease (NTD), leishmaniasis is an infection spread by ...

A disfiguring parasitic infection, common in the tropics, has now found a home in Texas and Oklahoma and is expanding its range in the U.S. The parasite, Leishmania mexicana, is transmitted by ...

Leishmaniasis is an infection from Leishmania parasites. It is transmitted through the bite of sand flies that have the parasite. An infection can be cutaneous, mucosal, or visceral. There are 1.5 ...

Usually, to get elephantiasis, you would have to be bitten by a lot of mosquitoes over a long time, in a country where certain types of roundworms are known to exist. It starts when mosquitoes ...

Once thought to be a danger largely reserved for travelers, a flesh-eating parasite known as Leishmania mexicana is now likely spreading locally through some sand flies native to the southern U.S ...

McIlwee sent off a sample for laboratory testing, and the results came back pointing to a surprising culprit: The boy had tested positive for cutaneous leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease.

is also leading to more mosquitoes and sandflies and therefore a spike in diseases such as lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis, dengue and visceral leishmaniasis (VL) or kala azar.

From 2005 to 2019, the CDC identified 1,222 cases in the U.S. that were positive for Leishmania, a parasite transmitted through the bites of infected female sandflies. The parasite can cause a ...

Treatment for elephantiasis includes medications, symptom management, and, sometimes, surgery. Although medically known as lymphatic filariasis, the term elephantiasis is commonly used because ...

University of Calgary researchers have discovered how Leishmania parasites hide within the body to cause Leishmaniasis. The tiny parasites are carried by infected sand flies. Considered a tropical ...

Finnish and French scientists have revealed how the actin cytoskeleton in cells is controlled in an evolutionarily distant, pathogenic Leishmania parasite. The results also provide tools to fight ...