Visceral Leishmaniasis: New Health Tools Are Needed
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Visceral Leishmaniasis: New Health Tools Are Needed
0590 V isceral leishmaniasis (VL), commonly known as kala-azar, from the Hindu vernacular, is a human systemic disease caused by parasitic protozoan species of the genus Leishmania. Transmitted by the bite of the tiny and seemingly innocuous female phlebotomine sandfl y (Figure 1), the parasite enters macrophages, where it multiplies and establishes the infection (Figure 2). A multitude of clin...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Medicine
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020211