Leishmania and Leishmaniasis: From Genes to Disease Control.

Resistance of Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis and Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis to nitric oxide correlates with disease severity in Tegumentary Leishmaniasis

BACKGROUND Nitric oxide (NO*) plays a pivotal role as a leishmanicidal agent in mouse macrophages. NO* resistant Escherichia coli and Mycobacterium tuberculosis have been associated with a severe outcome of these diseases. METHODS In this study we evaluated the in vitro toxicity of nitric oxide for the promastigote stages of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis and Leishmania (Leishmania) amazon...

Leishmaniasis: new approaches to disease control.

Field Trial of Autoclaved Leishmania Vaccines for Control of Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis in Meshkin-Shahr, Iran

Mixed mucosal leishmaniasis infection caused by Leishmania tropica and Leishmania

26 Mixed infection by different Leishmania species could explain differences in the clinical 27 course of these infections. On identification of Leishmania parasites from Iranian patients 28 with mucosal leishmaniasis (ML), a patient with both oral and nasal lesions was found to be 29 concomitantly infected with L. tropica and L. major. Mixed infection was identified by PCR 30 amplification of ...

Leishmania donovani leishmaniasis in Cyprus.

76 www.thelancet.com/infection Vol 9 February 2009 Nicole Léger and Jérôme Depaquit emphasise “the importance of preventing an extension of this anthroponotic species in Europe”, a point also stressed by Dujardin et al, since leishmaniasis is not placed under public health surveillance in Europe. We certainly agree with the authors that the indigenous transmission of Leishmania donovani to Cypr...