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Ethnopharmacology in the search for new leishmanicidal drugs

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Weniger, Bernard | Estrada, A | Aragón, R | Deharo, E | Arango, G J | Lobstein, A | Anton, R

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IntroductionCutaneous leishmaniasis is a zoonotic disease caused by species of the protozoal parasite, Leishmania. The disease causes deep characteristic tropical ulcers and/or nodules, which, upon healing, often result in disfiguring permanent scars. The different forms of leishmaniasis require expensive treatments, and the currently used medicines, pentavalent antimonials and/or pentamidine salts, show toxicity together with numerous side effects. Diverse cultural groups around the word have...

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