Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com rash which is on the rise. Clinical symptoms of VL disease in the initial infective stages overlap with symptoms of other diseases that make it difficult to diagnose. The VL disease is still a major health challenge in parts of the developing world having people in the most impoverished conditions where the disease is endemic. VL is caused by parasi...

BACKGROUND Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a parasitic infection (also called kala-azar in South Asia) caused by Leishmania donovani that is a considerable threat to public health in the Indian subcontinent, including densely populated Bangladesh. The disease seriously affects the poorest subset of the population in the subcontinent. Despite the fact that the incidence of VL results in significa...

The sand fly species Phlebotomus argentipes is reported to be the suspected primary vector of leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka transmitting Leishmania donovani which causes visceral leishmaniasis. Thus, studies about some aspects reproductive biology P. and performances immature stages are highly important for adopting control measures. Accordingly, flies were captured from wild using five CDC light ...

Psilocybe argentipes is a hallucinogenic mushroom. The present study examined the effects of P. argentipes on marble-burying behavior, which is considered an animal model of obsessive-compulsive disorder. P. argentipes significantly inhibited marble-burying behavior without affecting locomotor activity as compared with the same dose of authentic psilocybin. These findings suggest that P. argent...