How to Use leishmaniasis in a Sentence
leishmaniasis
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There have been a number of open wounds, one case of leishmaniasis, some nasty insect bites and a car crash.
—Daniel Glick, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2017
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Someone else reports having seen an open leishmaniasis sore on one of the boatmen.
—Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
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Someone else reports having seen an open leishmaniasis sore on one of the boatmen.
—Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
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Meanwhile, the sandflies that host parasites that cause leishmaniasis, some varieties of which cause skin lesions or spleen and liver damage, are showing up in north Texas.
—National Geographic, 14 June 2017
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Sand flies, which transmit the parasite that causes leishmaniasis, a skin disease, are also more active and take more blood meals in warmer temperatures.
—Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 24 May 2017
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As the family left through the swarm of people waiting outside the door, a man took his turn on the examination table to have a leg wound treated, while at the same time a wife and her husband received leishmaniasis injections at the nearby counter.
—Raja Abdulrahim, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2018
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Visceral leishmaniasis, the disease the parasite causes, leads to cutaneous sores on the skin, infections of organs including the spleen and liver and sometimes death.
—Jim Daley, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2021
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Besides combating malaria, gene drives could be used to alter, or even eliminate, other disease-causing insects, from the sand flies that transmit leishmaniasis to ticks that carry Lyme disease in the United States.
—Jennifer Kahn, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2020
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However, Cama said the agency has been fielding a growing volume of requests to help with diagnosing leishmaniasis cases.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2023
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The collapse of insect-control programs sparked the spread of cutaneous leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that results in disfiguring skin ulcers.
—Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
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Finally, in 1911, mucosal leishmaniasis joined the list of parasitic woes.
—Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2016
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Leishmaniasis, a sometimes-fatal, once primarily tropical affliction, has moved into northern Texas as the sandflies that host the disease-causing parasite head north.
—Craig Welch, National Geographic, 27 Apr. 2017
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For example, shifting precipitation and temperature are linked to changes in the distribution of diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and leishmaniasis.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
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It was originally developed to tackle breast cancer, but the drug became the leading option to treat another parasitic infection, leishmaniasis.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 26 July 2019
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World Health Organization action in Afghanistan aims to control debilitating leishmaniasis.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2011
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There are real diseases, including cholera, respiratory illnesses, leishmaniasis, physical and mental trauma and disability, secondary wound infection, etc.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2023
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