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Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by parasites that belong to the genus Leishmania and is transmitted by the bite of certain species of sandfly, including flies in the genus Lutzomyia in the New World and Phlebotomus in the Old World. The disease was named in 1901 for the Scottish pathologist William Boog Leishman.This disease is also known as Leichmaniosis, Leishmaniose, leishmaniose, and formerly, Orient Boils, kala azar, black fever, sandfly disease, Dum-Dum fever or espundia. Most forms ...
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Leishmaniasis Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases http://www.cancer.gov/
- National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Parasitic Diseases
- World Health Organization http://www.who.int/
- U.S. Army Medical Dept.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/
- Division of Parasitic Diseases, NCID, CDC, OPHS, HHS http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/default.htm
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