Leishmania /liːʃˈmeɪniə, -ˈmæn-/ is a parasitic protozoan, a single-celled organism of the genus Leishmania that is responsible for the disease leishmaniasis...
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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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Leishmania infantum is the causative agent of infantile visceral leishmaniasis in the Mediterranean region and in Latin America, where it has been called...
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Leishmania mexicana is a species of obligate intracellular parasites of the protozoan genus Leishmania. In Mexico and Central America, this parasite is...
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manifestations caused by protozoal parasites of the Trypanosomatida genus Leishmania. It is generally spread through the bite of phlebotomine sandflies, Phlebotomus...
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Leishmania tropica is a flagellate parasite and the cause of anthroponotic[dubious – discuss] cutaneous leishmaniasis in humans. This parasite is restricted...
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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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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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Leishmania braziliensis is a Leishmania species found in South America. It is associated with leishmaniasis. Within a few months of infection, an ulcer...
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Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania. The parasite migrates to the internal organs such as the liver, spleen...
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Leishmania amazonensis is a parasite responsible for the disease leishmaniasis. This species has been known to spread by using sandflies as its vector...
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Leishmania aethiopica is a Leishmania species. It is associated with cutaneous leishmaniasis also called "oriental sore". It comes under the old world...
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the bite of a phlebotomine sand fly. There are about thirty species of Leishmania that may cause cutaneous leishmaniasis. This disease is considered to...
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2009. Retrieved 29 October 2009. "Drought, Smallpox, and Emergence of Leishmania braziliensis in Northeastern Brazil" Archived 29 November 2013 at the...
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Leishmanolysin (redirect from Leishmania metalloproteinase)
(EC 3.4.24.36, promastigote surface endopeptidase, glycoprotein gp63, Leishmania metalloproteinase, surface acid proteinase, promastigote surface protease)...
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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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common ancestor of eukaryotes. Species once thought to be asexual, such as Leishmania parasites, have a sexual cycle. Amoebae, previously regarded as asexual...
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genus Lutzomyia. The protozoan parasite itself is a species of the genus Leishmania. Leishmaniasis normally finds a mammalian reservoir in rodents and other...
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Granuloma (section Leishmania spp.)
utero infection. Leishmaniases are a group of human diseases caused by Leishmania genus and transmitted by a sandfly bite can lead to granulomatous inflammation...
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minimizes propagation of those pathogens that parasitize phagocytes (e.g. Leishmania) because the more time such parasites spend outside a host cell, the more...
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Western blot using an anti-lipoic acid primary antibody and an IR-dye labelled secondary antibody in Leishmania major extracts...
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Experimental evolution (section Leishmania donovani)
the experiments. Bussotti and collaborators isolated amastigotes from Leishmania donovani and cultured them in vitro for 3800 generations (36 weeks). The...
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Totiviridae is a family of double-stranded RNA viruses. Giardia lamblia, leishmania, trichomonas vaginalis, and fungi serve as natural hosts. The name of...
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(LEESH-ma-NIGH-ah-sis) is a zoonotic disease (see human leishmaniasis) caused by Leishmania parasites transmitted by the bite of an infected phlebotomine sandfly...
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eukaryotic parasites that cause malaria (Plasmodium spp.) and leishmaniasis (Leishmania spp.). Other bacteria, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, live inside...
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spermidine (polyamine) linker. It is found in parasitic protozoa such as leishmania and trypanosomes. These protozoal parasites are the cause of leishmaniasis...
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Trypanosoma cruzi, and Leishmania infect macrophages, and each has a unique way of taming them. Some species of Leishmania alter the infected macrophage's...
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species which feed on bacteria. Others include Cryptobia and the parasitic Leishmania. Honigberg created the taxonomic names Kinetoplastida and Kinetoplastea...
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role of sloths and anteaters as Leishmania spp. reservoirs: a review and a newly described natural infection of Leishmania mexicana in the northern anteater"...
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microorganisms such as Trichomonas gallinae (in vitro), Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania amazonensis. flowers Eugenia uniflora fruits Eugenia uniflora Eugenia...
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