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    Leishmania donovani is a species of intracellular parasites belonging to the genus Leishmania, a group of haemoflagellate kinetoplastids that cause the...
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    In India, both cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis are caused by Leishmania donovani. The first records of cutaneous leishmaniasis in India were from...
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    other antimony-containing compounds in the treatment of VL caused by Leishmania donovani. When people develop visceral leishmaniasis, the most typical symptoms...
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    vector for the transmission of the disease. Leishmania infantum is closely related to Leishmania donovani, and some authors believe that these two species...
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  • experiments. Bussotti and collaborators isolated amastigotes from Leishmania donovani and cultured them in vitro for 3800 generations (36 weeks). The culture...
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    study were considered low". Visceral disease is usually caused by Leishmania donovani, L. infantum, or L. chagasi, but occasionally these species may cause...
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    Indian Medical Service. He is best remembered for his discoveries of Leishmania donovani as the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis, and Klebsiella...
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    Leishmania major is a species of parasite found in the genus Leishmania, and is associated with the disease zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (also known...
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    disease caused by several species of the genus Leishmania, is transmitted by various sandflies. Leishmania donovani causes spiking fevers, hepatosplenomegaly...
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  • subcontinent, however, there is only one common species of parasite, Leishmania donovani and only one species of sandfly, Phlebotomus argentipes, which spreads...
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    However, he utterly failed as he believed that the kala-azar parasite (Leishmania donovani, the very scientific name he later gave in 1903) was transmitted...
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  • duodenalis) Hammondia hammondi Histomonas meleagridis Isospora canis Leishmania donovani Leishmania infantum Neospora caninum Toxoplasma gondii Trichomonas gallinae...
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    leishmaniasis are geographic variants of the Leishmania donovani complex, including L. infantum, L. chagasi and L. donovani. The Mexicana (L. mexicana, L. amazonensis...
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    Piroplasma donovanii. However, the scientific name was corrected to Leishmania donovani the same year. In 1904, he and M. Cathoire reported the first case...
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    causing kala-azar can lead to PKDL, it is commonly associated with Leishmania donovani which gives different disease patterns in India and Sudan. In the...
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    while the male feeds on plant nectar.[citation needed] The parasite Leishmania donovani is the main causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in India...
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    studies, studying mechanisms by which the intracellular pathogen Leishmania donovani subverts macrophage microbicidal functions, under the Canadian immunologist...
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    Ali 2008 find that sertraline kills almost all promastigotes of Leishmania donovani. Sertraline is strongly antibacterial against some species. It is...
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  • Phlebotomus in the Indian subcontinent They are notable as a vector for Leishmania donovani, the parasite which causes leishmaniasis. The insect was first described...
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    complexity of an organism. Pseudouridine was also detected in the Leishmania donovani genome. 18 pseudouridine modification sites were detected in the...
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  • microorganisms, including C. albicans, Pneumocystis carinii and Leishmania donovani display glycans on their surfaces with terminal mannose residues...
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    cases, respectively. Thus, it is largely restricted to areas where Leishmania donovani is the causative parasite. The interval at which PKDL follows VL...
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    Salmonella typhi yes yes no Intracellular protozoa Plasmodium malariae Leishmania donovani no no yes Extracellular protozoa Entamoeba histolytica Giardia lamblia...
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    leishmaniasis (a set of trypanosomal diseases caused by various species of Leishmania transmitted by sandflies). The family is known from fossils of the extinct...
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    linker peptide can be removed without inactivating catalysis. In Leishmania donovani, separate OPRTase does not have detectable activity possibly due...
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    antileishmanial effect as well. The compound was effective against Leishmania donovani amastigotes in cultured mouse peritoneal macrophages at a dose of...
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    targets as well. Proper NMT functioning in the protozoa Leishmania major and Leishmania donovani (leishmaniasis), Trypanosoma brucei (African sleeping sickness)...
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    parasite proliferation in erythrocytes. From the six CK1 paralogues in Leishmania donovani only two paralogs, LdBPK_351020.1 and LdBPK_351030.1 (LmCK1.2), are...
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    granulomatis) and recognized as the protozoan that causes kala azar, Leishmania donovani. Leishman's name was engraved into the history of parasitology by...
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    magnification power is enough to enable the spotting of organisms such as Leishmania donovani and Escherichia coli, as well as malarial parasites. A Foldscope...
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