page_title: Leishmaniasis vaccine
hierarchical_section_title: Leishmaniasis vaccine
caption_attribution_description: English: Microbiologist working on Leishmania under category 2 biocontainment conditions
context_page_description: A Leishmaniasis vaccine is a vaccine which would prevent leishmaniasis. As of 2017, no vaccine for humans was available. Currently some effective leishmaniasis vaccines for dogs exist.
  The parasite which causes leishmaniasis is Leishmania, which is a Trypanosomatida. The disease spreads from sandflies. Animals such as dogs can be a vector for having the parasite, spreading it to sandflies, and from sandflies to humans. A vaccination strategy to control or eliminate Leishmaniasis might include developing a vaccine for humans and other vaccines for animals.
  Scientists wish for a vaccine and there is vaccine research. There is also consideration that public health practices can control or eliminate leishmaniasis without a vaccine.
context_section_description: A Leishmaniasis vaccine is a vaccine which would prevent leishmaniasis. As of 2017, no vaccine for humans was available. Currently some effective leishmaniasis vaccines for dogs exist.
  The parasite which causes leishmaniasis is Leishmania, which is a Trypanosomatida. The disease spreads from sandflies. Animals such as dogs can be a vector for having the parasite, spreading it to sandflies, and from sandflies to humans. A vaccination strategy to control or eliminate Leishmaniasis might include developing a vaccine for humans and other vaccines for animals.
  Scientists wish for a vaccine and there is vaccine research. There is also consideration that public health practices can control or eliminate leishmaniasis without a vaccine.
caption: A parasitologist working on L. major in a biocontainment hood
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