A discovery by Simona Stäger's team could help come up with a treatment for the most serious form of leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis is a tropical disease affecting a growing number of people worldwide.

Dozens of Israeli soldiers stationed near the Gaza Strip border are suspected of having the skin disease leishmaniasis, an Israeli newspaper revealed in its report published on Sunday. Dozens of ...

Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that affects up to 1 million people worldwide each year. It is caused by the protozoan Leishmania, transmitted through the bite of a sandfly. Once inside its ...

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 ...

Health authorities report around 255 leishmaniasis cases in Lower South Waziristan. Officials say medicines are available and ...

Researchers have taken an important step forward in developing a controlled human infection model to test leishmaniasis vaccines. Researchers have taken an important step forward in developing a ...

An otherwise healthy 42-year-old man presented with a small erythematous nodule on the superior part of his right ear and substantial swelling of the entire pinna (Figure 1A), which he had first ...

A new study offers an innovative way to track the spread of leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease affecting both animals and humans. Using high-resolution melting (HRM) PCR, researchers developed a fast, ...

Leishmaniasis is a tropical disease caused by a parasite called Leishmania donovanii. Sand flies of the Phlebotomus family spread these parasites through their bites. The different forms of human ...

As if years of war, terrorism and oppression weren’t harrowing enough for the people of Syria, the country is experiencing an epidemic of a so-called flesh-eating disease. Outbreaks of the disease, ...

Nobody wants to get bitten by a sandfly and catch a terrible disease with a daunting name – visceral leishmaniasis. It can cause fever, weight loss, enlargement of the spleen and liver, and anemia. If ...