Study of leishmania parasite may lead to vaccine, new treatments
... 12 million people are thought to be infected with leishmania parasites worldwide. The parasite is spread by the... his colleagues genetically engineered a strain of leishmania parasites that lacked LPG. They tested the ability of these modified parasites to cause infection in...... Oriental boil. It is caused by various species of leishmania (parasites) and results in very different clinical presentations. In all cases the consequences are severe tissue damage of the skin or the internal organs. With the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), a ...