Antileishmanial activity of Urtica dioica extract against zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis.

• Main Authors: Alireza Badirzadeh (Author), Maryam Heidari-Kharaji (Author), Vahid Fallah-Omrani (Author), Hossein Dabiri (Author), Atefeh Araghi (Author), Alireza Salimi Chirani (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Neglected parasitic diseases (NTDs) like cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) have caused high mortality and morbidity rate in developing countries. This disease is considered as one of the six major tropical diseases, and has a great importance in HIV infected individuals as an opportunistic inf...