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species of Leishmania
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15 species
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Leishmania?
order? transmission? genera of host? |
flagellated protozoans
Kinetoplastidae order sandflies from genera phleotomus and luzomyia |
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sandflys genera leishmanias
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phleotomus and luzomyia genera
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order of leishmania protozoan?
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flagellated protozoans
Kinetoplastidae order |
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Leishmania
3 major forms |
1. cutaneous old world
2. mucocutaneous new world 3 visceral world wide, mononuclar phagocyted syste, liver, spleen |
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leishmania prevalence
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4000,000 new cases/yr
12 million infected worldwide |
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cutaneous Leishmania world?
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afghanistan, Iran, Saudi aArabia, Syria, Brazil, Peru
Med basin, su-sharan Arica, Central Asia, India |
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old world leishmania
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l. major
l. tropica less common l infantum (eurpoe) L. aethiopica (ethiopia and Kenya) |
