期刊
SEMINARS IN IMMUNOPATHOLOGY
卷 42, 期 3, 页码 247-264出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00281-020-00788-y
关键词
Leishmaniasis; Immunopathology; Vaccines; Diagnostics; Drugs
资金
- Wellcome Trust Investigator Award [WT1063203]
- Research Council United Kingdom Grand Challenges Research Funder under grant agreement 'A Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases' [MR/P027989/1]
Leishmaniasis is a disease complex caused by 20 species of protozoan parasites belonging to the genus Leishmania. In humans, it has two main clinical forms, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and cutaneous or tegumentary leishmaniasis (CL), as well as several other cutaneous manifestations in a minority of cases. In the mammalian host Leishmania parasites infect different populations of macrophages where they multiply and survive in the phagolysosomal compartment. The progression of both VL and CL depends on the maintenance of a parasite-specific immunosuppressive state based around this host macrophage infection. The complexity and variation of immune responses and immunopathology in humans and the different host interactions of the different Leishmania species has an impact upon the effectiveness of vaccines, diagnostics and drugs.
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