Cutaneous leishmaniasis exhibits a wide spectrum of clinical presentations that is determined largely by the host immune response. The host immune response to infection is influenced both by host ...

Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that affects up to 1 million people worldwide each year. It is caused by the protozoan Leishmania, transmitted through the bite of a sandfly. Once inside its ...

Back in 2014, dermatologist Bridget McIlwee saw a 3-year-old patient in central Texas with unusual bumps on his ear. "They looked a little bit like almost kind of a benign mole that you would see in a ...

Leishmaniasis is a tropical disease caused by a parasite called Leishmania donovanii. Sand flies of the Phlebotomus family spread these parasites through their bites. The different forms of human ...

Small, inconspicuous skin lesions may heal by themselves, even without treatment. This can take months or even years. Ugly scars are often left behind. If the sores are large or located in ...

An otherwise healthy 42-year-old man presented with a small erythematous nodule on the superior part of his right ear and substantial swelling of the entire pinna (Figure 1A), which he had first ...

There are 500,000 cases per year of visceral leishmaniasis, which occurs primarily in the Indian subcontinent. Almost all untreated patients die, and all the effective agents have been parenteral.

Researchers have taken an important step forward in developing a controlled human infection model to test leishmaniasis vaccines. Researchers have taken an important step forward in developing a ...

Nobody wants to get bitten by a sandfly and catch a terrible disease with a daunting name – visceral leishmaniasis. It can cause fever, weight loss, enlargement of the spleen and liver, and anemia. If ...

A new study offers an innovative way to track the spread of leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease affecting both animals and humans. Using high-resolution melting (HRM) PCR, researchers developed a fast, ...

As if years of war, terrorism and oppression weren’t harrowing enough for the people of Syria, the country is experiencing an epidemic of a so-called flesh-eating disease. Outbreaks of the disease, ...