“…Leishmania tarentolae has also been investigated as vaccines against human pathogenic Leishmania species ( Bandi et al, 2023 ). After Breton et al showed that intra-peritoneal administration of live L. tarentolae in BALB/c mice induces a Th1 pathway with significant protection against L. donovani infectious challenge ( Breton et al, 2005 ), non-engineered live L. tarentolae promastigotes were assayed as candidate vaccines adjuvanted with CpG oligonucleotides ( Keshavarzian et al, 2020 ), or chitin microparticles against L. major ( Haghdoust et al, 2022 ; Noroozbeygi et al, 2023 ). Others employed genetically modified strains of L. tarentolae , engineered for overexpression of antigens from human pathogenic Leishmanias ( Saljoughian et al, 2013 ; Topuz Ata et al, 2023 ) or antigens from the vector saliva ( Katebi et al, 2015 ; Lajevardi et al, 2022 ).…”