Leishmania donovani
Encyclopedia
Leishmania donovani is a species of Leishmania
. It is an important cause of visceral leishmaniasis
. The reference genome of L. donovani extracted in the south eastern Nepal was published in 2011.
Leishmania
Leishmania is a genus of Trypanosomatid protozoa, and is the parasite responsible for the disease leishmaniasis. It is spread through sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus in the Old World, and of the genus Lutzomyia in the New World. Their primary hosts are vertebrates; Leishmania commonly infects...
. It is an important cause of visceral leishmaniasis
Visceral leishmaniasis
Visceral leishmaniasis , also known as kala-azar, black fever, and Dumdum fever, is the most severe form of leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by protozoan parasites of the Leishmania genus. This disease is the second-largest parasitic killer in the world , responsible for an...
. The reference genome of L. donovani extracted in the south eastern Nepal was published in 2011.
External links
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=5661
- http://www.ebi.ac.uk/genomes/eukaryota.html Leishmania donovani genome is deposited in this EBI page.