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<i>Leishmania donovani</i> is a parasite that infects mainly the human phagocyte system. The infection is transmitted to humans through sandflies, and is responsible for multiple forms of leishmaniasis or <i>kala-azar</i> in extreme cases | |||
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[[Image:Leishmania_promastigote.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Leishmania donovani promastigotes grown in culture, usually present in the digestive tract of sandflies. Image provided by the CDC.[https://www.kenyon.edu/kenyon-in-brief/].]] | [[Image:Leishmania_promastigote.jpg|thumb|300px|left|<i>Leishmania donovani</i> promastigotes grown in culture, usually present in the digestive tract of sandflies. Image provided by the CDC.[https://www.kenyon.edu/kenyon-in-brief/].]] | ||
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Leishmania donovani is a parasite that infects mainly the human phagocyte system. The infection is transmitted to humans through sandflies, and is responsible for multiple forms of leishmaniasis or kala-azar in extreme cases
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- ↑ Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria. "Leishmaniasis" 2017. Center for Disease Control
- ↑ Bartlett et al.: Oncolytic viruses as therapeutic cancer vaccines. Molecular Cancer 2013 12:103.
- ↑ Parmar, Naveen, Pragya Chandrakar, and Susanta Kar. "Leishmania Donovani Subverts Host Immune Response by Epigenetic Reprogramming of Macrophage M(Lipopolysaccharides Plus IFN-Gamma)/M(IL-10) Polarization." The Journal of Immunology (1950) 204, no. 10 (2020): 2762-2778.
Edited by Iris Pardue, student of Joan Slonczewski for BIOL 116 Information in Living Systems, 2021, Kenyon College.
