leishmania donovani การใช้

• "Leishmania donovani " causes spiking fevers, hepatosplenomegaly, and pancytopenia.
• The disease is transmitted via the bites of sandflies, which inject the parasite leishmania donovani into the body.
• "Echinacea " extracts inhibited growth of three species of trypanosomatids : Leishmania donovani, Leishmania major, and Trypanosoma brucei.
• As they published their discovery almost simultaneously, the species was named for both of them " Leishmania donovani ".
• Spread through sandflies carrying the leishmania donovani virus, the disease causes weight loss, fever and breaks down the immune system.
• ""'Leishmania donovani " "'is a species of intracellular parasites belonging to the genus " Leishmania ", a group of haemoflagellate kinetoplastids that cause the disease leishmaniasis.
• A fatal infectious disease called visceral leishmanis ( " kala-azar " as it was called in binomial " Leishmania donovani ", thereby equally crediting the two rivals.
• He is best remembered for his discoveries of " Leishmania donovani " as the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis, and " Klebsiella granulomatis " as that of donovanosis.
• One of the earliest known epidemics of " L . donovani " infection ( " kala-azar " as it was called in binomial " Leishmania donovani ", thereby equally crediting the two rivals.
• The parasite " Leishmania donovani " is the main causative agent of VL in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, where it is transmitted by the sand flies of the species " Phlebotomus argentipes ".
• One of the compounds found in " P . harmala ", vasicine ( peganine ), has been found to kill " Leishmania donovani ", a protozoan parasite that can cause potentially fatal visceral leishmaniasis.
• He synthesised Urea Stibamine ( carbostibamide ) in 1922 and determined that it was an effective substitute for the other antimony-containing compounds in the treatment of Kala-azar ( Visceral leishmaniasis ) which is caused by a protozoon, Leishmania donovani.
• In 1901, while examining pathologic specimens of a spleen from a patient who had died of Leishman-Donovan bodies ( not to be confused with Donovan bodies, which are found in Granuloma inguinale, which is caused by " Klebsiella granulomatis " ) and recognized as the protozoan that causes kala azar, " Leishmania donovani ".