Leishmaniasis immunotherapy vaccine
Inmunoterapia contra la leishmaniasis
- Date
- 1987 · confidence medium
- Place
- Institute of Biomedicine, Caracas, Venezuela
- Credited to
- Jacinto Convit
- People
- 👤 Jacinto Convit1913–2014
- Field
- Life & health
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
Convit combined Leishmania parasites killed by heat with BCG and achieved high cure rates for cutaneous leishmaniasis. He had earlier developed methods against leprosy.
Its efficacy as a preventive vaccine has not been confirmed in large trials; as an immunotherapy it did show good results.
What it led to
- an alternative to toxic antimonials
- research into antiparasitic vaccines