A tropical disease once seen almost exclusively in returning travelers is now being detected in Texas and the south in people with no international travel history — caused by a parasite strain that’s ...

A research team is one step closer to developing an effective human vaccine for cutaneous leishmaniasis. During the team's more than four years of research, they discovered a vaccine formulation that ...

Background. Phosphatidylserine (PS) and surface carbohydrates (SC) are known as virulence factors that may contribute to the different clinical symptoms ranging from self-healing cutaneous ...

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 tiny ...

Scientists with the CDC report that they've detected the tropical, flesh-eating parasite leishmaniasis in patients who haven't traveled outside the country Sand fly gnat sits on a leaf A flesh-eating ...

Nearly one million people worldwide are plagued annually by cutaneous leishmaniasis, a devastating skin infection caused by the Leishmania parasite. Predominantly affecting vulnerable populations in ...

The 3-year-old Shih Tzu likely contracted leishmaniasis after being bitten by an infected dog they lived with Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

On Aug. 29, the Ohio State research team announced it reached human trials for two vaccines against a tropical, often neglected, parasitic skin disease after they were found successful in animals.

Dr. Nidhi Dey from the University of York was recently interviewed on her exciting new work on the spatial analysis of IDO1 and PDL1 checkpoints in cutaneous leishmaniasis. What are IDO1 and PDL1, and ...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a parasitic infection caused by Leishmania parasite. CL cases have increased dramatically in Syria and neighboring countries due to conflict-related displacement of ...

This is a disease that will affect clinicians in the southwest US and eventually the entire country as climate warming progresses. Kudos to the cutaneous leishmaniasis case [Derm Clinics, “A painless ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Leishmania braziliensis is the causative agent of human cutaneous leishmaniasis in parts of the New World. In the murine model of infection, L ...