 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 UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Leishmania" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Leishmania" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Venugopal G, Bird JT, Roys H, Bowlin A, Fry L, Byrum SD, Weinkopff T. BOTH THE INFECTION STATUS AND INFLAMMATORY MICROENVIRONMENT INDUCE TRANSCRIPTIONAL REMODELING IN MACROPHAGES IN MURINE LEISHMANIAL LESIONS. J Parasitol. 2023 05 01; 109(3):200-210.
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de Almeida M, Zheng Y, Nascimento FS, Bishop H, Cama VA, Batra D, Unoarumhi Y, Afghan AK, Shi VY, LeBoit PE, Liu EW, Donovan FM. Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Caused by an Unknown Leishmania Strain, Arizona, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 06; 27(6):1714-1717.
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Lee GL, Woods KL, Clark L, Peters S, Wong HK, McGwire BS. Short communication: mucocutaneous leishmaniasis in HIV-related immune reconstitution syndrome. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2015 Sep; 31(9):889-92.
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Falc?o SA, Weinkopff T, Hurrell BP, Celes FS, Curvelo RP, Prates DB, Barral A, Borges VM, Tacchini-Cottier F, de Oliveira CI. Exposure to Leishmania braziliensis triggers neutrophil activation and apoptosis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015 Mar; 9(3):e0003601.
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