How to Use leishmaniasis in a Sentence

leishmaniasis

noun

• 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
• Though the risk of leishmaniasis in the U.S. is low, people can take measures to avoid getting bitten by sandflies, Kamb said.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2023
• Someone else reports having seen an open leishmaniasis sore on one of the boatmen.
  — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• Someone else reports having seen an open leishmaniasis sore on one of the boatmen.
  — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Finally, in 1911, mucosal leishmaniasis joined the list of parasitic woes.
  — Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2016
• 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
• 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
• 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
• World Health Organization action in Afghanistan aims to control debilitating leishmaniasis.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2011
• 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

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024