Leishmaniasis vaccine: where are we today?

L Kedzierski - Journal of global infectious diseases, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Leishmaniasis is a disease that ranges in severity from skin lesions to serious disfigurement
and fatal systemic infection. WHO has classified the disease as emerging and uncontrolled …

Vaccine candidates for leishmaniasis: a review

R Nagill, S Kaur - International immunopharmacology, 2011 - Elsevier
Leishmaniasis is a diverse group of clinical syndromes caused by protozoan parasites of the
genus Leishmania. The clinical manifestation of the disease varies from self-limiting …

A second generation leishmanization vaccine with a markerless attenuated Leishmania major strain using CRISPR gene editing

WW Zhang, S Karmakar, S Gannavaram, R Dey… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by Leishmania protozoa transmitted
by infected sand flies. Vaccination through leishmanization with live Leishmania major has …

Zooming in on common immune evasion mechanisms of pathogens in phagolysosomes: potential broad-spectrum therapeutic targets against infectious diseases

A Selvapandiyan, N Puri, P Kumar… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The intracellular viral, bacterial, or parasitic pathogens evade the host immune challenges to
propagate and cause fatal diseases. The microbes overpower host immunity at various …

Leishmaniasis: current treatment and prospects for new drugs and vaccines

L Kedzierski, A Sakthianandeswaren… - Current medicinal …, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
Leishmaniasis is a disease that ranges in severity from skin lesions to serious disfigurement
and fatal systemic infection. WHO estimates that the disease results in 2 million new cases a …

Intracellular replication-deficient Leishmania donovani induces long lasting protective immunity against visceral leishmaniasis

A Selvapandiyan, R Dey, S Nylen… - The Journal of …, 2009 - journals.aai.org
No vaccine is currently available for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) caused by Leishmania
donovani. This study addresses whether a live attenuated centrin gene-deleted L. donovani …

Host–pathogen interaction in leishmaniasis: immune response and vaccination strategies

H Yasmin, A Adhikary, MN Al-Ahdal, S Roy, U Kishore - Immuno, 2022 - mdpi.com
Leishmaniasis is a zoonotic and vector-borne infectious disease that is caused by the genus
Leishmania belonging to the trypanosomatid family. The protozoan parasite has a digenetic …

Preclinical validation of a live attenuated dermotropic Leishmania vaccine against vector transmitted fatal visceral leishmaniasis

S Karmakar, N Ismail, F Oliveira, J Oristian… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL), a potentially fatal disease is caused by Leishmania donovani
parasites with no vaccine available. Here we produced a dermotropic live attenuated centrin …

Expression profiling by whole-genome interspecies microarray hybridization reveals differential gene expression in procyclic promastigotes, lesion-derived …

TR Holzer, WR McMaster, JD Forney - Molecular and biochemical …, 2006 - Elsevier
We examined the Leishmania mexicana transcriptome to identify differentially regulated
mRNAs using high-density whole-genome oligonucleotide microarrays designed from the …

Leishmaniasis and various immunotherapeutic approaches

Y Taslimi, F Zahedifard, S Rafati - Parasitology, 2018 - cambridge.org
Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne infectious disease caused by multiple Leishmania (L.)
species with diverse clinical manifestations. There is currently no vaccine against any form …