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The fact that it shares common antigens with leishmanial parasites prompted its assessment as an immunostimulant and as an adjunct to known anti-leishmanials that may help in stimulating the suppressed immune status of<jats:italic>Leishmania donovani-<\/jats:italic>infected individuals. The efficacy of<jats:italic>Mw<\/jats:italic>vaccine was assessed as an immunomodulator, prophylactically either alone or in combination with anti-leishmanial vaccine, as well as therapeutically as an adjunct to anti-leishmanial treatment in<jats:italic>L. donovani-<\/jats:italic>infected hamsters, representing a chronic human Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) model. Similarly, its efficacy was also evaluated in<jats:italic>L. donovani<\/jats:italic>-infected BALB\/c mice, representing an acute VL model. 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