In recent years, Jammu and Kashmir has emerged as a new focus area of cutaneous leishmaniasis, with most cases reported from the Chenab Valley, Poonch and Rajouri districts in the Jammu division; and Kupwara and Baramulla districts in the Kashmir division.
An initiative focused on research into parasitic infections, including experts at the University of Dundee’s School of Life Sciences, has produced two drug compounds aimed at the potential treatment of the deadly parasitic infections, Chagas Disease and visceral leishmaniasis. Click to read more.
Researchers in developing countries are trying to find treatments for conditions that affect the poorest people. But the system is stacked against their therapies.
Leishmaniasis (Kala-azar) refers to the spectrum of infectious disease produced by species of the Leishmania parasite. The parasites spread by the bite of infected sand flies.