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• 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.

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• IDRI and Zydus sign agreement for development of IDRI's vaccine candidate for visceral leishmaniasis
  ( Infectious Disease Research Institute ) In a unique partnership, Zydus, India's fourth largest healthcare group and an innovation-led global healthcare provider, and IDRI, a Seattle-based non-profit research and product development organization, announced today they are collaborating on the production and clinical development of IDRI's visceral leishmaniasis vaccine candidate, designed to ...
  July 25, 2013 - EurekAlert!
• IDRI and Zydus Sign Agreement for Development of IDRI's Vaccine Candidate for Visceral Leishmaniasis (Kala-Azar)
  SEATTLE and AHMEDABAD, India, July 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a unique partnership, Zydus, India's fourth largest healthcare group and an innovation-led global healthcare provider, and IDRI, a Seattle-based non-profit research and product development organization, announced today they are collaborating on the production and clinical development of IDRI's visceral leishmaniasis (VL ...
  July 25, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! News