Penn vet team identifies new therapeutic targets for tropical disease leishmaniasis

Each year, about 2 million people contract leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by the bite of a sand fly. The cutaneous form of the disease results in disfiguring skin ulcers that may take months or years to heal and in rare cases can become metastatic, causing major tissue damage. Though anti-parasitic drugs can speed healing, ["]

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