 Leishmania
"Leishmania" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of flagellate protozoa comprising several species that are pathogenic for humans. Organisms of this genus have an amastigote and a promastigote stage in their life cycles. As a result of enzymatic studies this single genus has been divided into two subgenera: Leishmania leishmania and Leishmania viannia. Species within the Leishmania leishmania subgenus include: L. aethiopica, L. arabica, L. donovani, L. enrietti, L. gerbilli, L. hertigi, L. infantum, L. major, L. mexicana, and L. tropica. The following species are those that compose the Leishmania viannia subgenus: L. braziliensis, L. guyanensis, L. lainsoni, L. naiffi, and L. shawi.
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D007891
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.268.475.868.488
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| Concept/Terms |
Leishmania viannia- Leishmania viannia
- Leishmania viannias
- viannia, Leishmania
- viannias, Leishmania
- Leishmania (Viannia)
- Leishmanias (Viannia)
Leishmania (Leishmania)- Leishmania (Leishmania)
- Leishmanias (Leishmania)
- Leishmania leishmania
- Leishmania leishmanias
- leishmania, Leishmania
- leishmanias, Leishmania
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Leishmania" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Leishmania" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Leishmania" by people in Profiles.
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Pitaluga AN, Beteille V, Lobo AR, Ortigão-Farias JR, Dávila AM, Souza AA, Ramalho-Ortigão JM, Traub-Cseko YM. EST sequencing of blood-fed and Leishmania-infected midgut of Lutzomyia longipalpis, the principal visceral leishmaniasis vector in the Americas. Mol Genet Genomics. 2009 Sep; 282(3):307-17.
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Samanovic M, Molina-Portela MP, Chessler AD, Burleigh BA, Raper J. Trypanosome lytic factor, an antimicrobial high-density lipoprotein, ameliorates Leishmania infection. PLoS Pathog. 2009 Jan; 5(1):e1000276.
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Vale AM, Fujiwara RT, da Silva Neto AF, Miret JA, Alvarez DC, da Silva JC, Campos-Neto A, Reed S, Mayrink W, Nascimento E. Identification of highly specific and cross-reactive antigens of Leishmania species by antibodies from Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi naturally infected dogs. Zoonoses Public Health. 2009 Feb; 56(1):41-8.
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Bern C, Maguire JH, Alvar J. Complexities of assessing the disease burden attributable to leishmaniasis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008; 2(10):e313.
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Marín-Villa M, Sampaio Morgado G, Roy D, Traub-Cseko YM. Leishmania lysosomal targeting signal is recognized by yeast and not by mammalian cells. Parasitol Res. 2008 Sep; 103(4):983-8.
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Gregory DJ, Godbout M, Contreras I, Forget G, Olivier M. A novel form of NF-kappaB is induced by Leishmania infection: involvement in macrophage gene expression. Eur J Immunol. 2008 Apr; 38(4):1071-81.
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Badaro R, Lobo I, Munos A, Netto EM, Modabber F, Campos-Neto A, Coler RN, Reed SG. Immunotherapy for drug-refractory mucosal leishmaniasis. J Infect Dis. 2006 Oct 15; 194(8):1151-9.
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Lobanov AV, Gromer S, Salinas G, Gladyshev VN. Selenium metabolism in Trypanosoma: characterization of selenoproteomes and identification of a Kinetoplastida-specific selenoprotein. Nucleic Acids Res. 2006; 34(14):4012-24.
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Akilov OE, Kosaka S, O'Riordan K, Song X, Sherwood M, Flotte TJ, Foley JW, Hasan T. The role of photosensitizer molecular charge and structure on the efficacy of photodynamic therapy against Leishmania parasites. Chem Biol. 2006 Aug; 13(8):839-47.
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Vélez ID, Gilchrist K, Arbelaez MP, Rojas CA, Puerta JA, Antunes CM, Zicker F, Modabber F. Failure of a killed Leishmania amazonensis vaccine against American cutaneous leishmaniasis in Colombia. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2005 Aug; 99(8):593-8.
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