Researchers seeking to make a vaccine against a serious parasitic infection have discovered a dose of fly saliva might be just what the doctor ordered. Leishmaniasis, a disabling and sometimes deadly ...

Saliva from a species of the fly responsible for transmitting leishmaniasis can be used to vaccinate mice against the infection, researchers have shown. Leishmaniasis, a skin infection caused by ...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis, a disease characterized by painful skin ulcers, occurs when the parasite Leishmania major, or a related species, is transmitted to a mammalian host by the bite of an infected ...

Scientists have developed a new, safe and effective way to infect volunteers with the parasite that causes leishmaniasis and measure the body's immune response, bringing a vaccine for the neglected ...

A vaccine containing components of sand fly saliva may one day offer people protection against a devastating tropical illness, according to new research. In a report published today in the Journal of ...

Move over mosquitos. There’s another blood-sucking biter Americans need to guard against because it can spread disease: the sand fly. Sand flies are tiny tan flies — about the quarter of the size of a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . To determine fipronil’s effect on sand flies, Grant and colleagues executed a mathematical stochastic simulation ...

Insect-borne parasites usually like to "stick" around inside their hosts while they mature and prepare to infect again. Now, Jesus Valenzuela and colleagues have identified the molecular receptor ...