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• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Developing a Safe, Inexpensive Cure for 'Black Fever' - Progress reports on using paromomycin to cure visceral leishmaniasis, through supporting Help the Institute for OneWorld Health (iOWH), a nonprofit pharmaceutical firm. [PDF]
• CDC DPDx - Leishmaniasis - Includes causal agent, life cycle, geographic distribution, clinical features, laboratory diagnosis and features. From the US Government Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Parasitic Diseases.
• CDC Travelers' Health: Cutaneous Leishmaniasis - Advice for travelers on this skin infection including mode of transmission, occurrence, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment, and the preventative measures that can be taken.
• CDC Travelers' Health: Visceral Leishmaniasis - Advice for travelers on this infection including mode of transmission, occurrence, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment and the preventative measures that can be taken.
• CDC: Leishmania Infection (Leishmaniasis) - Fact sheet, advice for professionals and travelers, and weekly incidence reports. From the US Government Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
• DNDi: Visceral Leishmaniasis - Information about the disease and efforts to control it from the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative.
• Doctors Without Borders: Kala Azar - Basic information about the disease and the group's treatment programs in East African countries including Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda.
• ICT-TROP - Parasitology BIOL 2272: The Leishmaniases - Summary information plus clickable slides, references and world maps. From Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology, Research Unit for Tropical Diseases.
• Institute for OneWorld Health - Visceral Leishmaniasis. - Information on the disease and iOWH's ongoing work on developing the antibiotic paromomycin as a new cure for visceral leishmaniasis.
• Leishmania Surveillance in the Neapolitan - Information on a study of this disease in dogs in the United States, with instructions to dog owners on sending samples. [PDF]
• Masoud Akhtar - Visceral Leishmaniasis - Introduction, morphology, transmission, immunology, and treatment. From a B.Sc Applied Biology course project by a student at the University of East London.
• MedlinePlus - Leishmaniasis - Directory of news, articles and factsheets.
• MicrobeWiki: Leishmania - Description and significance, genome structure, cell structure, metabolism and ecology.
• Newsweek: Chasing Black Fever - Article about public-health efforts to combat kala azar (leishmaniasis) in India. Summer 2005.
• Oklahoma State University: Leishmaniasis - Basic information about leishmaniasis in canines and humans from the OSU Center for Veterinary Health Sciences.
• Third Cost B9 Congress - Seminars on trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis held in Bruges, Belgium on 29-31 May 2000. Sponsored by European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST).
• TropIKA: Leishmaniasis - Information on this disease, review articles, news items, research articles and reports.
• Visceral Leishmaniasis: Cytological Alterations that Occur in the Bone Marrow Parenchima - Paper by Nivaldo Madeiros who studied 100 patients with visceral leishmaniasis whose bone marrow aspirate analysis disclosed the protozoan, Leishmania donovani.
• WHO - Leishmaniasis - Provides information on the disease and its impact, surveillance and control, epidemic response, research, fact sheets, information resources and publications. From the World Health Organization.
• WHO/TDR - Leishmaniasis - Provides news, project reports, highlights, progress, publications, workplans, research grants and resources. From the World Health Organization, Tropical Disease Research and Training.
• Wikipedia - Leishmaniasis - Hyperlinked encyclopedia article about the parasitic disease and its treatment.
• eMedicine - Leishmaniasis - Includes an introduction to the disease plus sections on clinical, differentials, workup, treatment, medication, follow-up, miscellaneous, pictures, test questions and bibliography.
• eMedicine: Leishmaniasis - Provides an overview of this zoonotic infection caused by protozoa that belong to the genus Leishmania, its epidemiology, pathophysiology, frequency and clinical details.
• The Lancet: Advances in Leishmaniasis - Article by Dr Henry W Murray MD, Jonathan D Berman MD, Clive R Davies PhD and Nancy G Saravia PhD. (October 29, 2005)
• Journal of Immunology - Immunization Against Visceral Leishmaniasis - Simona Stäger, Deborah F. Smith and Paul M. Kaye. Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. (December 15, 2000)

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