Leishmania
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Epidemiology
- animal reservoir
- transmitted by sandflies
- Leishmania assumes amastigote form in mammals & promastigote form in sandflies
Pathology
Laboratory
- different species of Leishmania cannot be distinquished by direct examination
- Leishmania serology
- Leishmania DNA
- Leishmania rRNA
- also see Leishmaniasis
More general terms
More specific terms
- 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
Additional terms
References
- ↑ Clinical Diagnosis & Management by Laboratory Methods, 19th edition, J.B. Henry (ed), W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, PA. 1996, pg 1266-68