The shape and form of protozoan parasites are inextricably linked to their pathogenicity. The
evolutionary pressure associated with establishing and maintaining an infection and …

Parasitic diseases have an enormous health, social and economic impact and are a
particular problem in tropical regions of the world. Diseases caused by protozoa and …

Leishmaniases are vector-borne parasitic diseases with 0.9–1.4 million new human cases
each year worldwide. In the vectorial part of the life-cycle, Leishmania development is …

ABSTRACT TriTrypDB (http://tritrypdb. org) is an integrated database providing access to
genome-scale datasets for kinetoplastid parasites, and supporting a variety of complex …

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is endemic in the tropics and neotropics. It is often referred to as a
group of diseases because of the varied spectrum of clinical manifestations, which range …

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a systemic protozoan disease that is transmitted by
phlebotomine sandflies. Poor and neglected populations in East Africa and the Indian sub …

Governed by parasite and host factors and immunoinflammatory responses, the clinical
spectrum of leishmaniasis encompasses subclinical (inapparent), localised (skin lesions) …