Ep 62 Leishmaniasis, Relationship Status: It's Complicated
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The Evolution of Sandflies
For a while bed bugs seemed like the likeliest culprit. But then a few findings steered the ship towards sandflies. First was a 1912 report of flagellates found in the guts of sandflies caught at Aleppo. A place that historically has had a very high prevalence of anthroponautic cutaneous lushmaniasis. And a second was in 1921 when two French biologists and brothers, the Sergeant brothers, Sir Jean, I don't know. Put some ground sandflies into the skin of volunteers who then developed cutaneous lushManiasis lesions.
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