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A multi-disciplinary international effort to identify clinical, molecular and social factors impacting cutaneous leishmaniasis

Deliverables

Kick-off meeting, a booklet compiling project documentation provided to all partners, a web-based project management platform accessible through the LeiSHield-MATI website

Kickoff meeting a booklet compiling project documentation provided to all partners a webbased project management platform accessible through the LeiSHieldMATI website

Symposium highlighting the achievements from LeiSHield-MATI

Symposium highlighting the achievements from LeiSHieldMATI

Publications

Biomarkers of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis.

Author(s): Fariborz Bahrami; Ali M. Harandi; Sima Rafati
Published in: Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Issue 22352988, 2018, ISSN 2235-2988
Publisher: Frontiers Media S. A.
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2018.00222

Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Leishmania infantum in Morocco as Revealed by Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) Approach

Author(s): Sara El Mazini, Mourad Barhoumi , Idris Mhaidi , Othmane Daoui , Mouad Ait Kbaich , Sofia El Kacem , Imane El Idrissi Saik , Myriam Riyad , Khadija Bekhti , Ikram Guizani , Meryem Lemrani 
Published in: Pathogens, 2023, ISSN 2076-0817
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens12060785

Isolation, characterization, and functional study of extracellular vesicles derived from Leishmania tarentolae

Author(s): M Shokouhy; H Sarvnaz; Y Taslimi; MS Lajevardi; S Habibzadeh; A Mizbani; F Shekari; M Behbahani; AC Torrecilhas; S Rafati
Published in: Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022, ISSN 2235-2988
Publisher: Frontiers Media S. A.
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.921410

Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) of the Maghreb region: A systematic review of distribution, morphology, and role in the transmission of the pathogens.

Author(s): Benallal KE, Garni R, Harrat Z, Volf P, Dvorak V.
Published in: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022, ISSN 1935-2727
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009952

Transcriptomic profiling in Cutaneous Leishmaniasis patients

Author(s): Nasrin Masoudzadeh; Amir Mizbani; Sima Rafati
Published in: Expert Review of Proteomics, 2020, Page(s) volume 17, no 7-8 Pages 533-541, ISSN 1478-9450
Publisher: Future Drugs Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/14789450.2020.1812390

The LeiSHield-MATI consortium: An international project to understand and combat cutaneous leishmaniasis through research and innovation staff exchange

Author(s): Fariborz Bahrami; Sima Rafati
Published in: Journal of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Vol 7, Iss 3, Pp 85-86 (2019), Issue 23455349, 2019, ISSN 2345-5349
Publisher: Journal of medical microbiology and infectious diseases
DOI: 10.29252/jommid.7.3.85

ITS1 and cpb genetic polymorphisms in Algerian and Tunisian Leishmania infantum isolates from humans and dogs

Author(s): Razika Benikhlef, Melek Chaouch, Meriem Ben Abid, Karim Aoun, Zoubir Harrat, Aida Bouratbine, Souha BenAbderrazak
Published in: Zoonoses and public health, 2023, Page(s) Pages 201-212, ISSN 1863-1959
Publisher: Blackwell-Wiss.-Verl
DOI: 10.1111/zph.13016

Experimental evolution links post-transcriptional regulation to Leishmania fitness gain

Author(s): Laura Piel; K. Shanmugha Rajan; Giovanni Bussotti; Hugo Varet; Rachel Legendre; Caroline Proux; Thibaut Douché; Quentin Giai-Gianetto; Thibault Chaze; Thomas Cokelaer; Barbora Vojtkova; Nadav Gordon-Bar; Tirza Doniger; Smadar Cohen-Chalamish; Praveenkumar Rengaraj; Céline Besse; Anne Boland; Jovana Sadlova; Jean-François Deleuze; Mariette Matondo; Ron Unger; Petr Volf; Shulamit Michaeli; Pascal
Published in: PLoS Pathogens, Issue 15537366, 2022, ISSN 1553-7366
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010375

Profiling inflammatory response in lesions of cutaneous leishmaniasis patients using a non-invasive sampling method combined with a high-throughput protein detection assay

Author(s): Yasaman Taslimi; Christopher Agbajogu; Siggeir F. Brynjolfsson; Nasrin Masoudzadeh; Vahid Mashayekhi; Safoora Gharibzadeh; Malin Östensson; Sravya Sowdamini Nakka; Amir Mizbani; Sima Rafati; Ali M. Harandi; Ali M. Harandi
Published in: ISSN: 1043-4666, Issue 10434666, 2020, ISSN 1043-4666
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cyto.2020.155056

Colonization and genetic diversification processes of Leishmania infantum in the Americas

Author(s): Schwabl P, Boité MC, Bussotti G, Jacobs A, Andersson B, Moreira O, Freitas-Mesquita AL, Meyer-Fernandes JR, Telleria EL, Traub-Csekö Y, Vaselek S, Leštinová T, Volf P, Morgado FN, Porrozzi R, Llewellyn M, Späth GF, Cupolillo E
Published in: Communications Biology, 2021, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-01658-5

Population Genetic Structure of Phlebotomus sergenti (Diptera: Psychodidae) Collected in Four Regions of Morocco Based on the Analysis of Cyt b and EF-1α Genes.

Author(s): El Kacem S, Ait Kbaich M, Mhaidi I, Daoui O, Bennani H, Dvořák V, Lemrani M. 
Published in: Journal of Medical Entomology, 2023, Page(s) Volume 60, Issue 2, March 2023, Pages 294–305,, ISSN 1938-2928
Publisher: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/jme/tjac190

Th1 concomitant immune response mediated by IFN-γ protects against sand fly delivered Leishmania infection: Implications for vaccine design

Author(s): Negar Seyed,Sima Rafati
Published in: Cytokine, Issue 7,4, 2021, ISSN 1043-4666
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cyto.2020.155247

Leishmania tarentolae as Potential Live Vaccine Co-Expressing Distinct Salivary Gland Proteins Against Experimental Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in BALB/c Mice Model

Author(s): MS Lajevardi; E Gholami; T Taheri; H Sarvnaz; S Habibzadeh; N Seyed; Y Mortazavi; S Rafati
Published in: Frontiers in Immunology, 2022, ISSN 2235-2988
Publisher: Frontiers Media S. A.
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.895234

Cutaneous leishmaniasis: multiomics approaches to unravel the role of immune cells checkpoints

Author(s): Y Taslimi; N Masoudzadeh; F Bahrami; S Rafati
Published in: Expert Review of Proteomics, 2022, ISSN 1478-9450
Publisher: Future Drugs Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/14789450.2022.2131545

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Algeria; Highlight on the Focus of M’Sila

Author(s): Benikhlef, Razika; Aoun, Karim; Boudrissa, Abdelkarim; Ben Abid, Meriem; Cherif, Kamel; Aissi, Wafa; Benrekta, Souad; Boubidi, Said C.; Späth, Gerald F.; Bouratbine, Aïda; Sereno, Denis; Harrat, Zoubir
Published in: Microorganisms, 2021, 9, 962, Issue 20762607, 2022, ISSN 2076-2607
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9050962

Host competence of Algerian Gerbillus amoenus for Leishmania major. 

Author(s): Benallal KE, Mezai G, Mefissel M, Klari N, Lardjane C, Khardine AF, Kherachi I, Dib Y, Brahmi K, Sadlova J, Volf P, Harrat Z.
Published in: International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2023, ISSN 2213-2244
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2023.04.007

Profiling inflammatory response in lesions of cutaneous leishmaniasis patients using a non-invasive sampling method combined with a high-throughput protein detection assay

Author(s): Yasaman Taslimi; Christopher Agbajogu; Siggeir F. Brynjolfsson; Nasrin Masoudzadeh; Vahid Mashayekhi; Safoora Gharibzadeh; Malin Östensson; Sravya Sowdamini Nakka; Amir Mizbani; Sima Rafati; Ali M. Harandi; Ali M. Harandi
Published in: Cytokine, 2020, ISSN 1043-4666
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cyto.2020.155056

Nuclear and mitochondrial genome sequencing of North-African Leishmania infantum isolates from cured and relapsed visceral leishmaniasis patients reveals variations correlating with geography and phenotype

Author(s): Giovanni Bussotti, Alia Benkahla, Fakhri Jeddi, Oussama Souiaï, Karim Aoun​, Gerald F. Späth, Aïda Bouratbine
Published in: Microbiology society, 2020, Page(s) Volume 6, Issue 10, ISSN 2057-5858
Publisher: Microbial Genomic
DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000444

Molecular signatures of anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in the lesions of patients infected with Leishmania tropica

Author(s): Nasrin Masoudzadeh; Malin Östensson; Josefine Persson; Vahid Mashayekhi Goyonlo; Christopher Agbajogu; Yasaman Taslimi; Reza Erfanian Salim; Farnaz Zahedifard; Amir Mizbani; Housein Malekafzali Ardekani; Bronwyn M. Gunn; Bronwyn M. Gunn; Sima Rafati; Ali M. Harandi; Ali M. Harandi
Published in: Scientific Reports,, 2020, Page(s) Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-15, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-72671-7

Genome instability drives epistatic adaptation in the human pathogen Leishmania

Author(s): Giovanni Bussotti; Laura Piel; Pascale Pescher; Malgorzata A. Domagalska; K. Shanmugha Rajan; Smadar Cohen-Chalamish; Tirza Doniger; Disha-Gajanan Hiregange; Peter J Myler; Ron Unger; Shulamit Michaeli; Gerald F. Späth
Published in: "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , National Academy of Sciences, 2021, 118 (51), pp.e2113744118. ⟨10.1073/pnas.2113744118⟩", Issue 00278424, 2021, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2113744118

Blood transcriptional profiles distinguish different clinical stages of cutaneous leishmaniasis in humans

Author(s): Fariborz Bahrami , Nasrin Masoudzadeh , Suzanne Van Veen , Josefine Persson ,Arezou Lari , Hamzeh Sarvnaz , Yasaman Taslimi , Malin Östensson , Björn Andersson ,Iraj Sharifi , Vahid Mashayekhi Goyonlo , Tom HM Ottenhoff , Mariëlle C. Haks ,Ali M. Harandi , Sima Rafati
Published in: Molecular Immunology, 2022, Page(s) Pages 165-173, ISSN 2213-2244
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2022.07.008

Leishmania allelic selection during experimental sand fly infection correlates with mutational signatures of oxidative DNA damage

Author(s): Giovanni Bussotti , Blaise Li , Pascale Pescher , Barbora Vojtkova, Isabelle Louradour, Katerina Pruzinova , Jovana Sadlova , Petr Volf, and Gerald F. Späth
Published in: The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Issue 5, 2023, Page(s) Vol. 120- No. 10, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2220828120

Transcriptomic profiling in Cutaneous Leishmaniasis patients

Author(s): Nasrin Masoudzadeh; Amir Mizbani; Sima Rafati
Published in: Expert Review of Proteomics, 2020, volume 17, no 7-8, Issue 14789450, 2020, ISSN 1478-9450
Publisher: Future Drugs Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/14789450.2020.1812390

Profiling inflammatory response in lesions of cutaneous leishmaniasis patients using a non-invasive sampling method combined with a high-throughput protein detection assay.

Author(s): Yasaman Taslimia, Christopher Agbajogub, Siggeir Fannar Brynjolfssonc, Nasrin Masoudzadeha, Vahid Mashayekhid, Safoora Gharibzadehe, Malin Östenssonb, Sravya Sowdamini Nakkab, Amir Mizbanif, Sima Rafatia,⁎,1, Ali M. Harandib,g,⁎,1
Published in: Cytokine, 2020, ISSN 1043-4666
Publisher: Academic Press

First Report of Two Jaculus Rodents as Potential Reservoir Hosts of Leishmania Parasites in Tunisia.

Author(s): Ghawar W, Chaouch M, Ben Salah A, Snoussi MA, Salem S, Kharroubi G, Chouchen S, Bouaoun A, Laouini D, Bettaieb J, Ben Abderrazak S.
Published in: Microorganisms, 2022, ISSN 2076-2607
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10081502

GIP: An open-source computational pipeline for mapping genomic instability from protists to cancer cells

Author(s): G. F. Spaeth; Giovanni Bussotti
Published in: "Nucleic Acids Research, Oxford University Press, 2021, ⟨10.1093/nar/gkab1237⟩", Issue 03051048, 2022, ISSN 0305-1048
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1101/2021.06.15.448580

Infectiousness of Asymptomatic Meriones shawi, Reservoir Host of Leishmania major.

Author(s): Sadlova J, Vojtkova B, Lestinova T, Becvar T, Frynta D, Benallal KE, Mekarnia N, Harrat Z, Volf P
Published in: Pathogens, 2023, ISSN 2076-0817
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens12040614

Isolation, characterization, and functional study of extracellular vesicles derived from Leishmania tarentolae

Author(s): Mehrdad Shokouhy; Hamzeh Sarvnaz; Yasaman Taslimi; Mahya Sadat Lajevardi; Sima Habibzadeh; Amir Mizbani; Faezeh Shekari; Mandana Behbahani; Ana Claudia Torrecilhas; Sima Rafati
Published in: Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 12, Issue 3, 2022, ISSN 2235-2988
Publisher: Frontiers Media S. A.
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.921410

Tape-Disc-Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (TD-LAMP) Method as noninvasive approach for Diagnosis of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis caused by L. tropica

Author(s): Yasaman Taslimi; Sima Habibzadeh; Vahid Mashayekhi Goyonlo; Amin Akbarzadeh; Zahra Azarpour; Safoora Gharibzadeh; Mehrdad Shokouhy; Josefine Persson; Amir Mizbani; Sima Rafati; Ali M. Harandi
Published in: Heliyon Microbiology, 2023, ISSN 1097-4172
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e21397

Identification of blood source preferences and Leishmania infection in sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in north-eastern Algeria.

Author(s): Messahel NE, Benallal KE, Halada P, Lafri I, Manseur H, Hakem A, Houali K, Harrat Z, Volf P, Dvorak V.
Published in: Veterinary Parasitology: Regional Studies and Reports, 2022, ISSN 2213-2244
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.vprsr.2022.100729

Molecular signatures of anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in the lesions of patients infected with Leishmania tropica.

Author(s): Nasrin Masoudzadeh; Malin Östensson; Josefine Persson; Vahid Mashayekhi Goyonlo; Christopher Agbajogu; Yasaman Taslimi; Reza Erfanian Salim; Farnaz Zahedifard; Amir Mizbani; Housein Malekafzali Ardekani; Bronwyn M. Gunn; Bronwyn M. Gunn; Sima Rafati; Ali M. Harandi; Ali M. Harandi
Published in: Scientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-15 (2020), Issue 20452322, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-72671-7

Entomological study in an anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis focus in Morocco: Fauna survey, Leishmania infection screening, molecular characterization and MALDI-TOF MS protein profiling of relevant Phlebotomus species.

Author(s): Mhaidi I, Ait Kbaich M, El Kacem S, Daoui O, Akarid K, Spitzova T, Halada P, Dvorak V, Lemrani M.
Published in: Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2021, ISSN 1865-1682
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GMBH
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.14064

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