Laboratory diagnostics for human Leishmania infections: a polymerase chain reaction-focussed review of detection and identification methods

I Gow, NC Smith, D Stark, J Ellis - Parasites & Vectors, 2022 - Springer
Leishmania infections span a range of clinical syndromes and impact humans from many
geographic foci, but primarily the world's poorest regions. Transmitted by the bite of a female …

Eco-epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis in Ethiopia

E Gadisa, T Tsegaw, A Abera, D Elnaiem, M den Boer… - Parasites & vectors, 2015 - Springer
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL, Kala-azar) is one of the growing public health challenges in
Ethiopia with over 3.2 million people at risk and estimated up to 4000 new cases per year …

Safety and immunogenicity of ChAd63-KH vaccine in post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis patients in Sudan

BM Younis, M Osman, EAG Khalil, F Santoro, S Furini… - Molecular therapy, 2021 - cell.com
Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a chronic, stigmatizing skin condition
occurring frequently after apparent clinical cure from visceral leishmaniasis. Given an urgent …

Differential diagnosis of the honey bee trypanosomatids Crithidia mellificae and Lotmaria passim

J Ravoet, RS Schwarz, T Descamps, O Yañez… - Journal of invertebrate …, 2015 - Elsevier
Trypanosomatids infecting honey bees have been poorly studied with molecular methods
until recently. After the description of Crithidia mellificae (Langridge and McGhee, 1967) it …

High Resolution Melting Analysis Targeting hsp70 as a Fast and Efficient Method for the Discrimination of Leishmania Species

RA Zampieri, MF Laranjeira-Silva… - PLoS neglected …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania cause a large spectrum of clinical
manifestations known as Leishmaniases. These diseases are increasingly important public …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of Leishmania donovani and L. tropica in Ethiopian wild rodents

A Kassahun, J Sadlova, V Dvorak, T Kostalova… - Acta tropica, 2015 - Elsevier
Human visceral (VL, also known as Kala-azar) and cutaneous (CL) leishmaniasis are
important infectious diseases affecting countries in East Africa that remain endemic in …

Exposure to Leishmania spp. and sand flies in domestic animals in northwestern Ethiopia

I Rohousova, D Talmi-Frank, T Kostalova, N Polanska… - Parasites & vectors, 2015 - Springer
Background Human visceral leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania donovani is considered
an anthroponosis; however, Leishmania-infected animals have been increasingly reported …

2.8-Å cryo-EM structure of the large ribosomal subunit from the eukaryotic parasite Leishmania

M Shalev-Benami, Y Zhang, D Matzov, Y Halfon… - Cell Reports, 2016 - cell.com
Leishmania is a single-cell eukaryotic parasite of the Trypanosomatidae family, whose
members cause an array of tropical diseases. The often fatal outcome of infections, lack of …

[HTML][HTML] Leishmaniasis in northern Syria during civil war

K Rehman, J Walochnik, J Mischlinger… - Emerging infectious …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since the onset of the ongoing civil war in Syria, the governmental surveillance system for
leishmaniasis has lost access to provinces of northern Syria. The MENTOR Initiative, an …

Molecular typing of Leishmania infantum isolates from a leishmaniasis outbreak in Madrid, Spain, 2009 to 2012

C Chicharro, IP Llanes-Acevedo, E Garcia… - …, 2013 - eurosurveillance.org
Molecular typing of Leishmania infantum isolates from a leishmaniasis outbreak in Madrid,
Spain, 2009 to 2012 Page 1 1 www.eurosurveillance.org Research articles Molecular …