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Cutaneous Leishmanisis - DCL

How does the body respond to diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis? In diffuse cutaneous leishmanisis (DCL), a rare form of leishmaniasis, parasites grow uncontrolled in skin lesions across the body. For the first time, researchers have now profiled how the human immune system responds to a DCL infection and, in turn, how Leishmania amazonensis adapts to the human host. Source 1j.

DCL Leishmanisis Cutaneous

This is what makes parasites so scary for science; it's how they are able to become 'one' with the host and makes it harder to detect for people.