| leishmania aethiopica field isolates bearing an endosymbiontic dsrna virus induce pro-inflammatory cytokine response. | infection with leishmania parasites causes mainly cutaneous lesions at the site of the sand fly bite. inflammatory metastatic forms have been reported with leishmania species such as l. braziliensis, guyanensis and aethiopica. little is known about the factors underlying such exacerbated clinical presentations. leishmania rna virus (lrv) is mainly found within south american leishmania braziliensis and guyanensis. in a mouse model of l. guyanensis infection, its presence is responsible for an hy ... | 2014 | 24762979 |