"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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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 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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Homologous minicircles in Leishmania donovani. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2002 Apr; 96 Suppl 1:S75-80.
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Leishmania donovani: development and characterisation of a kinetoplast DNA probe and its use in the detection of parasites. Exp Parasitol. 2000 Jan; 94(1):15-22.
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Kala-azar in a high transmission focus: an ethnic and geographic dimension. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1999 Dec; 61(6):941-4.
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Sequence homology within a minicircle class of the Leishmania donovani complex. Mol Biochem Parasitol. 1999 Jun 25; 101(1-2):229-32.
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First identification of a species of Leishmania causing visceral leishmaniasis in the Sultanate of Oman, in a patient with AIDS. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 1998 May-Jun; 92(3):356-7.