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Leishmania
Epidemiology:
1) animal reservoir
2) transmitted by sandflies
a) Phlebotomus in Old World
b) Lutzomyia in New World
3) Leishmania assumes amastigote form in mammals & promastigote form in sandflies
Pathology:
- Leishmaniasis
Laboratory:
- different species of Leishmania cannot be distinquished by direct examination
- Leishmania serology
- Leishmania DNA
- Leishmania rRNA
- also see Leishmaniasis
Related
leishmaniasis
Specific
Leishmania aethiopica
Leishmania amazonensis
Leishmania braziliensis
Leishmania chagasi
Leishmania columbiensis
Leishmania donovani
Leishmania garnhami
Leishmania guyanensis
Leishmania infantum
Leishmania lainsoni
Leishmania major
Leishmania major-like
Leishmania mexicana
Leishmania naiffi
Leishmania panamensis
Leishmania peruviana
Leishmania pifanoi
Leishmania tropica
Leishmania venezuelensis
General
trypanosomatidae
Properties
KINGDOM: animal
PHYLUM: protozoa
References
Clinical Diagnosis & Management by Laboratory Methods,
19th edition, J.B. Henry (ed), W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia,
PA. 1996, pg 1266-68