Leishmania can also infect internal organs including the liver, spleen, and bone marrow. This more severe type of leishmaniasis, called visceral leishmaniasis, is not believed to be transmitted in ...

Leishmaniasis is a potentially fatal parasitic disease. It’s caused by leishmania parasites. You can get it if you are bitten by phlebotomine sand flies that carry this parasite.

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 ...

Leishmania remains uncommon in the U.S., he added. “For the general public, if you’re not traveling to endemic areas, your risk is vanishingly small,” Lieberman said.

In fact, at least five times more of the Leishmania-carrying flies lived after exposure to the bacterium (known as Serratia marcescens), compared to flies free of the protozoa.

Leishmania, a genus of trypanosomatid protozoa, is endemic in 98 countries or territories worldwide, with infection transmitted by the bite of a female sand fly.

This strain is transmitted the same way as the skin-related disease, via sandfly bites, but visceral leishmaniasis contains a related parasite, Leishmania infantum, that affects organs and kills ...

Leishmania virulence strategy unveiled Date: August 12, 2019 Source: Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS Summary: A team has made a scientific breakthrough regarding the ...

Leishmania parasites reveal their sexuality Date: February 8, 2016 Source: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) Summary: With 16 million people affected worldwide, mainly in ...

Certain azole antifungal drugs have activity against leishmania in vitro. 3–5 They inhibit the growth of leishmania in culture systems by inhibiting the cytochrome P-450–mediated 14α ...

Leishmania, which are single-cell organisms about the size of large bacteria, have been a scourge in about 90 countries in South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and southern Europe.

This protocol describes an improved and optimized PCR-ELISA method for detection and quantification of Leishmania parasites in host tissues. Unlike other DNA-based assays, this method uses ...