Protective or detrimental? understanding the role of host immunity in leishmaniasis

C dos Santos Meira, L Gedamu - Microorganisms, 2019 - mdpi.com
The intracellular protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania are the causative agents of
leishmaniasis, a vector-borne disease of major public health concern, estimated to affect 12 …

Leishmania vaccine development: A comprehensive review

I Saini, J Joshi, S Kaur - Cellular Immunology, 2024 - Elsevier
Infectious diseases like leishmaniasis, malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, leprosy and filariasis are
responsible for an immense burden on public health systems. Among these, leishmaniasis …

A recombinant Leishmania amastigote-specific protein, rLiHyG, with adjuvants, protects against infection with Leishmania infantum

AS Machado, DP Lage, DL Vale, CS Freitas… - Acta Tropica, 2022 - Elsevier
Vaccination against visceral leishmaniasis (VL) should be considered as a control measure
to protect against disease, and amastigote-specific proteins could help to develop such …

Epitope-binding characteristics for risk versus protective DRB1 alleles for visceral leishmaniasis

T Singh, M Fakiola, J Oommen, AP Singh… - The Journal of …, 2018 - journals.aai.org
HLA-DRB1 is the major genetic risk factor for visceral leishmaniasis (VL). We used
SNP2HLA to impute HLA-DRB1 alleles and SNPTEST to carry out association analyses in …

Efficacy of an Immunotherapy Combining Immunogenic Chimeric Protein Plus Adjuvant and Amphotericin B against Murine Visceral Leishmaniasis

DL Vale, CS Freitas, VT Martins, GJL Moreira… - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Visceral leishmaniasis is a tropical neglected disease caused by infection
with Leishmania parasites. There are no human vaccines and the current drug treatments for …

Leishmania infantum pyridoxal kinase evaluated in a recombinant protein and DNA vaccine to protects against visceral leishmaniasis

JA Oliveira-da-Silva, DP Lage, FF Ramos… - Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Leishmania infantum pyridoxal kinase (PK) protein was characterized after an
immunoproteomics screening performed with the sera from patients suffering visceral …

Recombinant small glutamine-rich tetratricopeptide repeat-containing protein of Leishmania infantum: Potential vaccine and diagnostic application against visceral …

DS Dias, PAF Ribeiro, VT Martins, DP Lage… - Molecular …, 2017 - Elsevier
Different Leishmania proteins have been evaluated in order to find a potential vaccine
candidate or diagnostic marker capable of providing long lasting protection against infection …

A Leishmania amastigote-specific hypothetical protein evaluated as recombinant protein plus Th1 adjuvant or DNA plasmid-based vaccine to protect against visceral …

JA Oliveira-da-Silva, AS Machado, FF Ramos… - Cellular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Most studies evaluating vaccine candidates against visceral leishmaniasis (VL) have used
parasite promastigote-expressed antigens; however, Leishmania proteins expressed in the …

Evaluation of a Leishmania hypothetical protein administered as DNA vaccine or recombinant protein against Leishmania infantum infection and its immunogenicity in …

PAF Ribeiro, DS Dias, DP Lage, LE Costa… - Cellular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a fatal disease when acute and untreated. The treatment
against this disease is long and presents toxicity and/or high costs. Moreover, parasite …

Analysis of the Antigenic and Prophylactic Properties of the Leishmania Translation Initiation Factors eIF2 and eIF2B in Natural and Experimental Leishmaniasis

E Garde, L Ramirez, L Corvo, JC Solana… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Different members of intracellular protein families are recognized by the immune system of
the vertebrate host infected by parasites of the genus Leishmania. Here, we have analyzed …