leishmaniasis
- n sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies
- That is why the Gates Foundation has made finding a malaria vaccine a priority, along with eradicating scourges such as hookworm, hepatitis B, leishmaniasis (a parasitic disease .
- OneWorld has already brought to market a drug for visceral leishmaniasis, a disease that sickens 1.
- The cause of this destruction was kala-azar (scientifically known as visceral leishmaniasis), a deadly disease caused by a parasitic protozoan.