Leishmaniases remain a major public health problem today despite the vast amount of
research conducted on Leishmania pathogens. The biological model is genetically and …

Molecular approaches are being used increasingly for epidemiological studies of visceral
and cutaneous leishmaniases. Several molecular markers resolving genetic differences …

Our results have shown the wide diversity of parasites within New World Leishmania.
Biochemical and molecular characterization of species within the genus has revealed that …

In order to illustrate the relevance of the concepts and methods of evolutionary genetics in
the understanding of the epidemiology of pathogenic agents, we develop in this paper the …

Progress in the diagnosis of leishmaniases depends on the development of effective
methods and the discovery of suitable biomarkers. We propose firstly an update …

This review gives an update of current knowledge on the clinical pleiomorphism of
Leishmania, with a special emphasis on the case of asymptomatic carriage. The first part …

The Leishmania donovani complex is considered to be composed of 3 species; L. donovani,
L. infantum and L. chagasi, although this classification has been challenged. Genotypic …

The genus Leishmania includes many pathogenic species which are genetically very
distant. The possibility of genetic exchange between different strains is still an important and …

Since the mid-1980s there has been a dramatic increase in the number of leishmanial
infections in HIV-positive patients concurrent with the spread of the viral epidemic to areas …

Leishmaniasis is a geographically widespread severe disease, with an increasing incidence
of two million cases per year and 350 million people from 88 countries at risk. The causative …