Leishmania

See also: leishmania and leishmânia

Translingual

Promastigotes of Leishmania tropica

Etymology

Named after Scottish pathologist William Boog Leishman +‎ -ia (taxonomic suffix).

Proper noun

Leishmania f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Trypanosomatidae – parasitic protozoans, a trypanosome, transmitted by sandflies and which cause disease in humans and other vertebrates.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Protozoa - kingdom; Eozoa - subkingdom; Euglenozoa - infrakingdom; Euglenozoa - phylum; Kinetoplastea - class; Trypanosomatida - order; Trypanosomatidae - family; Leishmaniinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Leishmania, Mundinia, Viannia - subgenera; Leishmania aethiopica, Leishmania braziliensis, Leishmania donovani, Leishmania major, Leishmania mexicana, Leishmania peruviana, Leishmania tropica - selected species

Descendants

• → English: leishmania

References

• Leishmania on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Leishmania on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Leishmania on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Leishmania at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Leishmania available from http://www.irmng.org at VLIZ.03 Rees, T. (compiler) (2017). The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera