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.

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. “Pentalinonsterol could represent the next generation of small-molecule-mediated immunotherapy for visceral leishmaniasis,” Elizabeth Sharlow, a ...

Researchers are zeroing in on the Achilles' heel of pathogens that cause Chagas disease, sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis.

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis results in scars and stigma for the people of Gilgil, south-western Kenya. The disease is spread through sandflies and leaves those infected with multiple ulcers which scar ...

Dr. Nidhi Dey from the University of York was recently interviewed on her exciting new work on the spatial analysis of IDO1 and PDL1 checkpoints in cutaneous leishmaniasis. What are IDO1 and PDL1 ...

A deadly disease spread by a common sandfly has claimed two lives in Thailand this year. Health chiefs tell people to use bug spray.

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a severe infectious disease caused by a protozoan parasite: Leishmania donovani in East Africa and the Indian subcontinent and Leishmania infantum in Latin America ...

Thai health authorities have issued a warning following two deaths from leishmaniasis this year, urging the public to take precautions against bites from sandflies, the disease’s primary vector.

Varanasi: In a landmark achievement that promises to change the course of treatment for visceral leishmaniasis (Kala-azar), a ...

The efforts of a research team give hope for new treatment approaches for dangerous tropical diseases. The researchers have compiled a high-precision inventory of the membrane proteins of cell ...