Background Studies performed over the past decade have identified fairly consistent
epidemiological patterns of risk factors for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Indian …

Parasitic diseases such as Kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis), Chagas disease (American
trypanosomiasis) and African sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) are …

Iron is almost ubiquitous in living organisms due to the utility of its redox chemistry. It is also
dangerous as it can catalyse the formation of reactive free radicals–a classical double …

Background L. braziliensis causes cutaneous (CL) and mucosal (ML) leishmaniasis. Wound
healing neutrophil (PMN) and macrophage responses made following the bite of the vector …

Despite their high genomic synteny, the Leishmania major and Leishmania infantum
species exhibit extensive differences in mRNA expression patterns throughout the parasite's …

The identification of genetic variants predisposing to complex diseases and phenotypes
represent a challenge for geneticists in the early part of the 21st century. These are not …

ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS (VI) tebrado (flebótomos) y una forma intracelular
(amastigote) en el hospedador vertebrado. En el hospedador intermediario (invertebrado) …

One of the problems in reviewing the field of immunogenetics and host response to
parasites just now is that most genetic studies undertaken to date have been underpowered …

The last decade has seen rapid advances in the genetic technology that is allowing
researchers to examine host–pathogen interactions at a whole organism level. The advent …

This chapter focuses mainly on parasites that cause serious diseases in humans. Among the
parasitic protists, there are two major pathogenic groups, the apicomplexans, named for the …