Financial & competing interests disclosure
The author is supported by NIH grant 1R01AI083219 and received travel funds from Paladin Labs (manufacturer of miltefosine) to attend a scientific meeting in 2009. The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.