Leishmania Species Flashcards
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Disease and causative species
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Hosts and vectors
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1) Leishmania species
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Morphology
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Disease: leishmaniasis
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- Cutaneous leishmaniasis (affecting the skin) is caused by:
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Leishmania tropica
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Leishmania major and Leishmania aethiopica (in the Old
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World)
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Leishmania mexicana (in the New World).
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MucOcutaneous leishmaniasis (affecting skin & nasal and oral mucosa) is caused
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by Leishmania braziliensis (in the New World).
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- Visceral leishmaniasis (also called kala-azar; affecting liver
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spleen
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and bone marrow) is caused by Leishmania donovani
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Primary (definitive) hosts: humans and vertebrate animals (particularly dogs and
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rodents → also reservoir hosts).
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Secondary (intermediate) hosts: female sandflies also vectors).
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- Amastigote (intracellular form without a flagellum) inside macrophages of definitive
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hosts causes the disease.
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- Promasti 31 6f 11gellular form with flagellum) in the gut and pharynx of female
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sandflies > ransmits the infection (infective stage) and is detected in culture.
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