Progress in the diagnosis of leishmaniases depends on the development of effective
methods and the discovery of suitable biomarkers. We propose firstly an update …

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a severely neglected tropical disease that has been
significantly increasing in numbers affected over the past decades, with a change in global …

Leishmaniosis caused by Leishmania infantum is a vector-borne zoonotic disease endemic
in southern Europe, but which is spreading northwards. Millions of dogs, cats and other non …

Background Surveillance of human leishmaniasis in Europe is mostly limited to country-
specific information from autochthonous infections in the southern part. As at the end of …

Pathogens transmitted to humans by phlebotomine sand flies are neglected, as they cause
infectious diseases that are not on the priority list of national and international public health …

It has been nearly 10 years since the completion of the first entire genome sequence of a
Leishmania parasite. Genomic and transcriptomic analyses have advanced our …

Leishmania is an infectious protozoan parasite related to African and American
trypanosomes. All Leishmania species that are pathogenic to humans can cause dermal …

Reproduction as identical or similar organisms in most biological systems depends on the
extreme accuracy of the mitotic (and meiotic) mechanisms involved in the transmission of the …

In the past decade, the number of imported leishmaniasis cases has increased in countries
of Western Europe. The trend is associated with increasing travels, ecotourism activity …

Several genetic markers have been described for discriminating Leishmania species. In
most reported cases, one or a few polymorphisms are the basis of species identification, and …