For the first time, researchers have now profiled how the human immune system responds to a DCL infection and, in turn, how Leishmania amazonensis adapts to the human host. In diffuse cutaneous ...

Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis is the second most frequent agent of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Brazil, 1 a country with high incidence of this disease (WHO 2016). Our study is the first to ...

Now, researchers have showed that a natural flavonoid is effective at treating Leishmania amazonensis infections. Current treatment options for the parasitic disease leishmaniasis are largely ...

More information: Bianca A. Ferreira et al, Amphotericin B resistance in Leishmania amazonensis: In vitro and in vivo characterization of a Brazilian clinical isolate, PLOS Neglected Tropical ...

We conducted a randomized, vehicle-controlled phase 3 trial of topical treatments containing 15% paromomycin, with and without 0.5% gentamicin, for cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania ...

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The process enables Leishmania to remain in mammalian hosts for years, sometimes for the entire lifetime of an infected individual." Dario Zamboni, principal investigator for the study and last ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...