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Histopathological Changes in Golden Hamsters Induced by Leishmania tropica


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1 School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, 302 Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, United States
2 Biology Department, College of Science, University of Baghdad, Al-Jadriyah Campus, Baghdad, Iraq
 

Several hundred million people are living in areas where they can be infected with leishmaniasis, a disease caused by over 20 species of pathogenic intracellular protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania and transmitted through the bite of a female phlebotomine sandfly. Leishmania parasites infect phagocytes, dendritic cells and fibroblasts. The essential vertebrate host target cell is the macrophage, where the intracellular amastigotes of Leishmania reproduce, eventually rupture the cell and spread to other uninfected macrophages.
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Al-Warid Harith Saeed
School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, 302 Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, United States
Fawzia Ahmed Al Shanawi
Biology Department, College of Science, University of Baghdad, Al-Jadriyah Campus, Baghdad, Iraq

Abstract


Several hundred million people are living in areas where they can be infected with leishmaniasis, a disease caused by over 20 species of pathogenic intracellular protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania and transmitted through the bite of a female phlebotomine sandfly. Leishmania parasites infect phagocytes, dendritic cells and fibroblasts. The essential vertebrate host target cell is the macrophage, where the intracellular amastigotes of Leishmania reproduce, eventually rupture the cell and spread to other uninfected macrophages.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv111%2Fi10%2F1602-1603