NIH R01 · 2024
Project Summary The natural history of human dermal leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania Viannia species provides unequivocal evidence of long-term persistence of parasites in asymptomatically as well as symptomatically infected individuals. Persistent infection can remain asymptomatic, or can be clinically manifested through the development of mucosal or cutaneous leishmaniasis (ML and CL) following either asymptomatic infections, or as recurrent disease long after resolution of primary lesions. Molecular evidence of persistent parasites in the conjunctiva, nasal and oropharyngeal mucosal tissues, skin and blood monocytes has been documented in as many as 40% of infected individuals in…
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