Recently, vector-borne parasitic diseases such as leishmaniasis have been emerged or re-
emerged in many geographical areas and resulted in global health and economic concerns …

Leishmaniasis due to Leishmania infantum (syn. L. chagasi) infection is a zoonotic disease
present mainly in Mediterranean basin, central Asia and Brazil. Besides a limited number of …

Background Infectious disease incidence is often male-biased. Two main hypotheses have
been proposed to explain this observation. The physiological hypothesis (PH) emphasizes …

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) caused by Leishmania infantum is endemic in the
Mediterranean basin with most of the infected human patients remaining asymptomatic …

Abstract The initiative One World,“One Health” tries to rapidly detect emerging or reemerging
human and animal infectious diseases and prevent epidemiological situations such as …

The prevalence of Leishmania infantum-specific antibodies and asymptomatic infection was
assessed in a randomized sample of 526 healthy adults from a continental area of …

Background Asymptomatic infection is the most common outcome of exposure to
Leishmania parasites. In the Mediterranean region, where Leishmania infantum is endemic …

Four lipid-rich microalgal species from the Red Sea belonging to three different genera
(Nannochloris, Picochlorum and Desmochloris), previously isolated as novel biodiesel …

Sand flies are recognised vectors of parasites in the genus Leishmania and a number of
arthropod-borne viruses, in particular viruses within the genus Phlebovirus, family …

Spatial distribution and cluster analysis of a leishmaniasis outbreak in the south-western
Madrid region, Spain, September 2009 Page 1 1 www.eurosurveillance.org Research …