Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: progress and challenges

M De Rycker, S Wyllie, D Horn, KD Read… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Leishmaniasis (visceral and cutaneous), Chagas disease and human African
trypanosomiasis cause substantial death and morbidity, particularly in low-and middle …

Is leishmaniasis the new emerging zoonosis in the world?

E Montaner-Angoiti, L Llobat - Veterinary Research Communications, 2023 - Springer
Leishmania is a genus of parasitic protozoa that causes a disease called leishmaniasis.
Leishmaniasis is transmitted to humans through the bites of infected female sandflies. There …

Engineering and design of promising T-cell-based multi-epitope vaccine candidates against leishmaniasis

ER Basmenj, M Arastonejad, M Mamizadeh, M Alem… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a very common parasitic infection in subtropical areas
worldwide. Throughout decades, there have been challenges in vaccine design and …

[HTML][HTML] Vaccine value profile for leishmaniasis

PM Kaye, G Matlashewski, S Mohan, E Le Rutte… - vaccine, 2023 - Elsevier
Leishmania infections are global, occurring in 98 countries and all World Health
Organization (WHO) regions with 600 million to 1 billion people at risk of infection. Visceral …

Safety and reactogenicity of a controlled human infection model of sand fly-transmitted cutaneous leishmaniasis

V Parkash, H Ashwin, S Dey, J Sadlova, B Vojtkova… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
The leishmaniases are globally important parasitic diseases for which no human vaccines
are currently available. To facilitate vaccine development, we conducted an open-label …

Memory T cells: promising biomarkers for evaluating protection and vaccine efficacy against leishmaniasis

M Nateghi-Rostami, Y Sohrabi - Frontiers in Immunology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the immune response to Leishmania infection and identifying biomarkers
that correlate with protection are crucial for developing effective vaccines. One intriguing …

Leishmaniasis vaccines: applications of RNA technology and targeted clinical trial designs

MS Duthie, BAS Machado, R Badaró, PM Kaye… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Leishmania parasites cause a variety of discrete clinical diseases that present in regions
where their specific sand fly vectors sustain transmission. Clinical and laboratory research …

Antileishmanial potentials of azacitidine and along with meglumine antimoniate on Leishmania major: In silico prediction and in vitro analysis

A Derakhshani, I Sharifi, E Salarkia, A Keyhani… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
This study aimed to investigate the in vitro and in silico antileishmanial activity of azacitidine
(AZA) on Leishmania major promastigotes and amastigotes. The in silico method was used …

[HTML][HTML] Computer-aided drug design approaches applied to screen natural product's structural analogs targeting arginase in Leishmania spp

HL Barazorda-Ccahuana, LD Goyzueta-Mamani… - …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Introduction: Leishmaniasis is a disease with high mortality rates and approximately 1.5
million new cases each year. Despite the new approaches and advances to fight the …

Targeting with Structural Analogs of Natural Products the Purine Salvage Pathway in Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum by Computer-Aided Drug-Design …

HL Barazorda-Ccahuana… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) has a high death rate, with 500,000 new cases and 50,000
deaths occurring annually. Despite the development of novel strategies and technologies …