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Of the diseases caused by protozoal parasites, leishmaniasis is probably second in importance only to malaria. Chemotherapeutic drugs are toxic, expensive and not 100% effective. This, and the absence of any non-living vaccine against the disease, means that control depends on eliminating either reservoirs or insect vectors, or both. Recently, a greatly increased knowledge of the Leishmania species involved, and of their natural hosts, has helped to define the nature and extent of the problem.
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Lainson, R., Shaw, J. Epidemiology and ecology of leishmaniasis in Latin-America. Nature 273, 595–600 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/273595a0
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