Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease infecting world’s poorest population in over 90 countries throughout Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Central South Africa. An underestimated 700,000 to one million new cases occur annually. refers spectrum of diseases caused by parasite, Leishmania, transmitted bite infected sandflies. Of three major syndromes (cutaneous, mucosal visceral) leishm...

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) is a severe health problem and parasitic disease on human dermal widely pervades tropical subtropical developing counties. The study mainly focused Geographic Information System (GIS) based Situational Analysis (SA). clinically recorded 394 CL patients’ information was obtained from the District General Hospital of Polonnaruwa (DGHP) for 2017 2018. spatial distribut...

The review is devoted to the gut lectins/hemagglutinins of the following representatives of important disease vectors: ticks, kissing-bugs, mosquitoes, sandflies and tsetse flies. The paper surveys the recent knowledge on these carbohydrate binding factors with respect to their structural and functional properties, and their significance for pathogen/parasite transmission by the blood-sucking a...