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• Main Authors: M. Hide, B. Bucheton, S. Kamhawi, R. Bras-gonçalves, S. Sundar J. -l. Lemesre, A. -l. Ba
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Azar; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.417.8585; http://gemi.mpl.ird.fr/PDF/HideWiley2007.pdf

Leishmaniasis has been known for many hundreds of years, with one of the first clinical descriptions made in 1756 by Alexander Russell and called Aleppo boil. Many names correspond to this group of diseases: kala-azar, Dum-dum fever, white leprosy, espundia, pian bois, and so on. Leishmaniases are p...