Kemri is constantly scanning our environment for threats such as anti-microbial resistance, outbreaks; epidemics; pandemics; ...

Visceral leishmaniasis is a fatal disease caused by the Leishmania parasite, affecting organs such as the liver and spleen. Visceral leishmaniasis is considered a neglected tropical disease and is ...

A study on leishmaniasis transmission shows that even healthy-looking skin or sore edges in natural hosts can infect sand ...

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. Experts ...

The first step of successful infection by any intracellular pathogen relies on its ability to invade its host cell membrane. However, the detailed structural and molecular understanding underlying ...

Researchers in Brazil who analyzed samples from a 46-year-old patient in the Northeast state of Maranhão found an amphotericin B-resistant strain of the parasite Leishmania amazonensis ...

Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by infection by one of several species of parasites of the genus Leishmania. Various factors increase the transmission risk, such as low socioeconomic levels, ...

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 ...

Leishmania parasites undergo differentiation between various proliferating and non-dividing forms to adapt to changing host environments. The mechanisms that link environmental cues with the ...

"Leishmania has been a national scourge for several years," Eli Schwartz, an expert in internal medicine and travel medicine at Tel Hashomer Medical Center and president of the Israeli Society of ...

The leishmania parasite is transmitted to humans through the bite of a tiny sandfly. The bites leave painful inflammatory skin lesions that do not heal and last for many weeks.

IDF soldiers in Gaza suspected infected with leishmania Several cases of the disease, which is spread by insect bites, have been found in staging areas around Gaza. Israel National News ...