A skin-inhabiting species of Leishmania found in Panama in the tropical porcupine, Coendou rothschildi, is considered new and described as Leishmania hertigi sp. n. L. hertigi is differentiated from ...

WE must apologise for two errors in the note on the behaviour of cultures of Leishmania in P. papatasii (NATURE, Jan. 8, p. 48). Sandfly No. 172 was not laboratory bred but was caught in Jerusalem, ...

Leishmaniasis is an infection from Leishmania parasites. It is transmitted through the bite of sand flies that have the parasite. An infection can be cutaneous, mucosal, or visceral. There are 1.5 to ...

Three years ago, Laura Gaither and her family spent their summer vacation in Panama City Beach, Florida. One afternoon, while rinsing sand off her feet, the 35-year-old Alabama resident felt something ...