It is a skin infection caused by a single-celled parasite that is transmitted by sandfly bites.
It was found that an extract from its tissues showed activity against Leishmania amazonensis, the protozoan parasite causing the tropical skin disease leishmaniasis, and had the advantage that it was not toxic to the mice on which it was tested.
leishmaniasis | Leishmaniasis | Cutaneous leishmaniasis | Cutaneous small-vessel vasculitis | Cutaneous rabbit illusion | Cutaneous larva migrans | Cutaneous horn | Canine leishmaniasis |