Affiliation:
1. INRS – Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Université du Québec, Laval, Quebec, Canada
Abstract
Leishmaniasis, a debilitating disease with clinical manifestations ranging from self-healing ulcers to life-threatening visceral pathologies, is caused by protozoan parasites of the
Leishmania
genus. These professional vacuolar pathogens are transmitted by infected sand flies to mammalian hosts as metacyclic promastigotes and are rapidly internalized by various phagocyte populations.
Funder
Canada Research Chairs
Gouvernement du Canada | Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology
Cited by
7 articles.
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