Publisher Summary This chapter provides information on host response to leishmania
infection. Leishmaniasis is caused by the infection with protozoan parasites of the genus …

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) mainly caused by Leishmania braziliensis is a chronic
inflammatory disease widely spread in Brazil. Genetic variant strains of this parasite have …

Diagnostic and parasite characterization and identification studies were carried out in
human patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis lesions in Santiago del Estero, Northern …

Aims Leishmaniasis is considered a disease with multiple clinical/immunopathological
characteristics, depending on the immunity of the host and the species of the parasite. In …

Attempts to infect native Panamanian mammals with culture forms of local human strains of
Leishmania braziliensis produced cutaneous infections for the first time in the spiny rat …

Unulcerated cutaneous lesions appeared and persisted in squirrel monkeys experimentally
infected with Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis or L. b. panamensis. Peripheral blood …

There is little available information regarding the infectivity of New World Leishmania
species, particularly those from the Amazonian Brazil, where there are six species of the …

Evidence of Leishmania infection was found in small mammals captured between 1996 and
2000 in the Amaraji region, Pernambuco State, Brazil. The kDNA polymerase chain reaction …

Cutaneous leishmaniases are endemic parasitoses caused by several species of the genus
Leishmania that are transmitted by phlebotomid sandflies. Most information on host …

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania. The
mechanisms of pathogen control have been established primarily in the mouse model of …