A tropically stable liquid therapy for leishmaniasis, a disease known as the Baghdad boil, shows a significant decrease in infection after less than a week of treatment. A tropically stable liquid ...

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a systemic protozoan disease that is transmitted by phlebotomine sandflies. Poor and neglected populations in East Africa and the Indian sub-continent are particularly ...

A compound isolated from a plant used in Mayan traditional medicine could be a new drug candidate for the parasitic disease visceral leishmaniasis (ACS Infect. Dis. 2015, DOI: ...

A shorter, and less toxic treatment for people with visceral leishmaniasis was shown to be effective thanks to a study conducted in Eastern Africa by the non-profit medical research organization Drugs ...

Leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease prevalent across 90 countries, affects approximately 12 million people worldwide, with 350 million more at risk of infection. Caused by unicellular ...

The current first-line treatment for leishmaniasis, a skin disease that can cause disfiguring ulcers, is grueling and frequently fails. A new study pinpoints genetic factors that predict whether a ...

Novartis and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), a not-for-profit research and development (R&D) organization, have signed a collaboration and license agreement to jointly develop ...

The other two are cutaneous leishmaniasis (the most prevalent, resulting in skin ulcers) and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (affecting the mouth, nose, and throat). The existing treatments, which mostly ...

Whereas certain oral antifungal azoles are well documented to have activity against leishmania, data on the efficacy of fluconazole for leishmaniasis are limited. We conducted a controlled trial in ...

New strain of Leishmania parasite can be characterized to form the basis of a new controlled human infection model for the disease. Leishmaniasis vaccines can be tested using a controlled human ...

Why Is Leishmaniasis Causing This Rise In J&K? As per reports, here is why cases of Leishmaniasis is rising in J&K: Climate change, population mobility, and deforestation are key factors driving the ...

PESHAWAR: The Karak district health department is facing an acute shortage of funds to deal with the rising number of leishmaniasis patients. So far, around 751 cases have been confirmed by the ...