"Leishmania donovani" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A parasitic hemoflagellate of the subgenus Leishmania leishmania that infects man and animals and causes visceral leishmaniasis (LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL). The sandfly genera Phlebotomus and Lutzomyia are the vectors.
| Descriptor ID |
D007893
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.268.475.868.488.230
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| Concept/Terms |
Leishmania donovani- Leishmania donovani
- Leishmania donovanus
- donovanus, Leishmania
- Leishmania (Leishmania) donovani
- Leishmania leishmania donovani
- Leishmania leishmania donovanus
- donovani, Leishmania leishmania
- donovanus, Leishmania leishmania
- leishmania donovanus, Leishmania
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2000 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Leishmania donovani" by people in Profiles.
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Leishmania donovani: influence of anti-leishmanial therapy on expression of lymphocyte function-associated antigen-3 and its relevance to pathogenisis in visceral leishmaniasis. Hum Immunol. 2013 Dec; 74(12):1575-8.
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Viscerotropic potential of parasites isolated from post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis cases: an experimental evidence. J Vector Borne Dis. 2012 Dec; 49(4):266-7.
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Usefulness of the direct agglutination test in the early detection of subclinical Leishmania donovani infection: a community-based study. Ann Trop Med Parasitol. 2005 Dec; 99(8):743-9.
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Leishmania donovani in blood smears of asymptomatic persons. Acta Trop. 2000 Sep 18; 76(2):195-6.
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Screening sandflies for natural infection with Leishmania donovani, using a non-radioactive probe based on the total DNA of the parasite. Ann Trop Med Parasitol. 2000 Jul; 94(5):447-51.