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Cutaneous leishmaniosis, a disease characterized by painful hide ulcers, occurs when the parasite Leishmania major, or a related species, is transmitted to a mammalian host by the insect bite of an infected sand fly. In a newfangled study from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), share of the National Institutes of Health, scientists have discovered L. major does its damage by not only evading but as well by exploiting the body's wound-healing
