CV Lattes
ORCID
Abstract
Caused by protozoans of the Leishmania genus, leishmaniasis is a group of neglected diseases that afflicts thousands of people worldwide, where its most severe form, visceral leishmaniasis if left untreated, has a high mortality rate. They have as a vector the sand flies, which inoculate the promastigote form of the parasite in the host and, within macrophages, assume the amastigote form,…