Laura Gallego-Yerga

Dec 24, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Miguel Marin |Miguel Marín |Marta Lopez |Marta López |Laura Gallego-Yerga |Raquel Álvarez

1 INTRODUCTION Leishmaniasis is a group of different neglected tropical diseases caused by kinetoplastid protozoans of the genus Leishmania.1 There are more than 20 species of leishmania reported to cause human infections worldwide, being endemic in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, where more than 1 billion people are at risk of infection.2 The infections are transmitted between mammals (zoonosis) by the bite of infected female sandflies of the genus Lutzomyia in the New World and...