NAIROBI, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's Ministry of Health said on Friday that the response to the outbreak of the parasitic disease visceral leishmaniasis, or kala-azar, has been intensified amid 25 ...

Wajir County has deployed a specialized health team to Eldas and Wajir West for a 10-day fumigation and spraying exercise to ...

The Wajir County government has launched an emergency response plan to contain a deadly outbreak of Kala-azar, a parasitic ...

A deadly Kala-azar outbreak in Wajir has claimed 18 lives and infected over 500 people in three months. Health officials have ...

A deadly outbreak of Kala-azar, a parasitic disease caused by the Leishmania parasite, has hit Wajir County, leaving 18 dead and infecting more than 500 people in the last 3 months.

LXE408 is a first-in-class parasite-selective inhibitor of the kinetoplastid proteasome with potent and uniform anti-parasitic activity against all kinetoplastid parasites, including Leishmania ...

C. et al. Molecular and serological detection of Leishmania spp. in horses from an endemic area for canine visceral leishmaniasis in southeastern Brazil. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, v.38, n.6, ...

Kala-azar is caused by more than 20 species of parasitic protozoa of the genus Leishmania. It is transmitted to humans by sandflies (Phlebotomus and Lutzomyia species), which live mainly in anthills ...