Tag Luiza Laborne

Key Points Tapeworms cause disease in humans in either of the two stages of their life cycle: the adult stage, which takes place in the intestines, where it causes mild or non-existent clinical manifestations, and the larval stage, which causes…

Key Points The leishmaniases are a group of zoonotic infections of humans and certain animals caused by several species of a flagellated parasite belonging to the order Kinetoplastidae, genus Leishmania , and transmitted by the bite of a fly of…