Ohio State researchers develop a first-ever vaccine against leishmaniasis, which could infect more than 10% of the ...

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.

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 ...

A breakthrough in understanding how a single-cell parasite makes ergosterol (its version of cholesterol) could lead to more effective drugs for human leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that afflicts ...

Leishmaniasis is present in approximately 200 countries worldwide, being a major public health problem primarily in the ...

In recent years, physicians and scientists in parts of Brazil where visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is endemic have seen rising numbers of cases of co-infection by Leishmania infantum and Crithidia, also ...

Leishmaniasis is a potentially fatal parasitic disease. It’s caused by leishmania parasites. You can get it if you are bitten by phlebotomine sand flies that carry this parasite. Experts classify ...

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 ...

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 ...

The relationship between vitamin D deficiency and the risk of suffering from a plethora of health disorders, ranging from autoimmune processes to infectious diseases has been widely described.

Ben Farmer is Africa Correspondent for The Telegraph and its Global Health Security team and is based in South Africa. He has worked at The Telegraph for nearly 20 years, including five years in Kabul ...