Vaccine stops deadly sand-fly-spread scourge in animal test

DNA immunization protects hamsters and mice from Leishmania parasite

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PREPPING FOR INVASION  Preventing the Leishmania donovani parasite (shown, untreated) from hijacking heme from its hosts may be key to creating a vaccine to combat the scourge. 

L.R.  Haines et al/PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2009

A lethal parasite appears susceptible to an experimental vaccine that seizes upon the scourge’s apparatus for invading cells.