Azithromycin, an azalide antibiotic, is highly concentrated within different phagocytic cells, especially macrophages. The potential antileishmanial activity of azithromycin against three species of L...
Leishmania parasites cause a group of diseases collectively known as leishmaniases. The primary hosts of Leishmania are sylvatic mammals of several orders (Rodentia, Marsupialia, Carnivora, etc.). Und...
The present paper reports the experimental treatment of hamsters infected with Leishmania chagasi and Leishmania amazonensis with sodium stibogluconate (20 mg/kg/day x 20 days). Only with L. chagasi d...
The leishmaniases are global health problems that affect both humans and animals. The availability of nonhuman primate models is desirable for such important areas as testing candidate vaccines and ne...
Although bats are one of the most abundant mammals in the new world and are present in virtually all ecosystems, including urban and peri-urban environments, few studies have investigated the role of ...
The development of alternative therapeutic approaches for cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) has received considerable attention in recent research, including the identification of formulations for topical ...
To establish the relationships of the lizard- and mammal-infecting Leishmania, we characterized the intergenic spacer region of ribosomal RNA genes from L. tarentolae and L. hoogstraali. The organizat...