Leishmania
See also: leishmania and leishmânia
Translingual
Etymology
Named after Scottish pathologist William Boog Leishman + -ia (taxonomic suffix).
Proper noun
Leishmania f
- 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
- Category: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