Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Social media helps diagnose parasitic disease in teen travelers

A new report details how physicians and patients used social media to help diagnose cutaneous leishmaniasis in a group of teens who traveled on a youth adventure trip to Israel. Their posts quickly brought the cluster to ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Review of RDTs for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis

Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Disease Group, co-ordinated through the editorial base in LSTM, conducted an independent review into the effectiveness of rapid diagnostic tests in diagnosing patients with visceral ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

On the track of the deadly parasite Leishmania

Leishmaniasis is one of the most underreported and insufficiently monitored diseases in the world. According to the WHO more than 300.000 people are infected annually with the most severe form of this disease - kala-azar. ...

Other

Parasite surveillance to support policy against drug resistance

Leishmaniasis is a tropical disease known in Europe because it affects dogs. It is caused by the Leishmania parasite carried by sandflies. However, several types of the parasite also affect humans in several regions in the ...

Genetics

Study reveals the role of sex in spread of deadly disease

Research involving scientists at the University of York has provided important new information about transmission of human leishmaniasis, a group of infectious diseases which kills more than 100,000 people a year.

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