Leishmaniasis
MONDO:0011989Infectious disease that is transmitted through the bite of hematophagous female phlebotomine sand flies. The clinical spectrum ranges from asymptomatic to clinically overt disease which can remain localized to the skin or disseminate to the upper oral and respiratory mucous membranes or throughout the reticulo-endothelial system. Three main clinical syndromes have been described: visceral (or Kala-Azar; with fever, weight loss, hepatosplenomegaly), cutaneous, and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (cutaneous or mucocutaneous ulceration).
Also known as: cutaneous leishmaniasis (subtype), visceral leishmaniasis (subtype)
28 clinical trials for this condition and its sub-types, 8 tagged with Leishmaniasis itself.
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis 14 trials
1 sub-type
- Leishmaniasis, diffuse cutaneous 0 trials
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Visceral leishmaniasis 14 trials
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Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis 3 trials
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Blood tests could replace painful spleen sampling for deadly parasite
Diagnosis CompletedVisceral leishmaniasis is a fatal parasitic disease if left untreated, and current methods to check whether treatment worked require invasive sampling of the spleen or bone marrow. Researchers at Gondar University Hospital in Ethiopia are evaluating blood-based immune and molecul…
Sponsor: Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Switzerland • Aim: Diagnosis
Last updated Sep 19, 2026 00:00 UTC
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New rapid test could speed up diagnosis of parasitic skin disease
Diagnosis CompletedThis study evaluated a new rapid test called CL Detect™ for diagnosing cutaneous leishmaniasis, a skin infection caused by parasites. Researchers tested 150 adults with skin ulcers to see how well the rapid test works compared to the standard method of looking at samples under a …
Sponsor: U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command • Aim: Diagnosis
Last updated Jun 27, 2026 09:07 UTC