Drug resistance and treatment failure in leishmaniasis: A 21st century challenge

A Ponte-Sucre, F Gamarro, JC Dujardin… - PLoS neglected …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Reevaluation of treatment guidelines for Old and New World leishmaniasis is urgently
needed on a global basis because treatment failure is an increasing problem. Drug …

[HTML][HTML] Leishmania infections: Molecular targets and diagnosis

M Akhoundi, T Downing, J Votýpka, K Kuhls… - Molecular aspects of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Progress in the diagnosis of leishmaniases depends on the development of effective
methods and the discovery of suitable biomarkers. We propose firstly an update …

Microreact: visualizing and sharing data for genomic epidemiology and phylogeography

S Argimón, K Abudahab, RJE Goater… - Microbial …, 2016 - microbiologyresearch.org
Visualization is frequently used to aid our interpretation of complex datasets. Within
microbial genomics, visualizing the relationships between multiple genomes as a tree …

Trypanosomatids are much more than just trypanosomes: clues from the expanded family tree

J Lukeš, A Butenko, H Hashimi, DA Maslov… - Trends in …, 2018 - cell.com
Trypanosomes and leishmanias are widely known parasites of humans. However, they are
just two out of several phylogenetic lineages that constitute the family Trypanosomatidae …

Recent advances in trypanosomatid research: genome organization, expression, metabolism, taxonomy and evolution

DA Maslov, FR Opperdoes, AY Kostygov, H Hashimi… - Parasitology, 2019 - cambridge.org
Unicellular flagellates of the family Trypanosomatidae are obligatory parasites of
invertebrates, vertebrates and plants. Dixenous species are aetiological agents of a number …

Protozoan persister-like cells and drug treatment failure

MP Barrett, DE Kyle, LD Sibley, JB Radke… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Antimicrobial treatment failure threatens our ability to control infections. In addition to
antimicrobial resistance, treatment failures are increasingly understood to derive from cells …

Global genome diversity of the Leishmania donovani complex

SU Franssen, C Durrant, O Stark, B Moser, T Downing… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Protozoan parasites of the Leishmania donovani complex–L. donovani and L. infantum–
cause the fatal disease visceral leishmaniasis. We present the first comprehensive genome …

Modulation of Aneuploidy in Leishmania donovani during Adaptation to Different In Vitro and In Vivo Environments and Its Impact on Gene Expression

F Dumetz, H Imamura, M Sanders, V Seblova… - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Aneuploidy is usually deleterious in multicellular organisms but appears to be tolerated and
potentially beneficial in unicellular organisms, including pathogens. Leishmania, a major …

Melarsoprol resistance in African trypanosomiasis

AH Fairlamb, D Horn - Trends in parasitology, 2018 - cell.com
Arsenicals were introduced as monotherapies for the treatment of human African
trypanosomiasis, or slee** sickness, over 100 years ago. Toxicity has always been an …

[HTML][HTML] Plasticity of the Leishmania genome leading to gene copy number variations and drug resistance

MCN Laffitte, P Leprohon, B Papadopoulou… - …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Leishmania has a plastic genome, and drug pressure can select for gene copy number
variation (CNV). CNVs can apply either to whole chromosomes, leading to aneuploidy, or to …