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Preferred term

Leishmania major  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Leishmania (Leishmania) major
  • Leishmania leishmania major
  • Leishmania leishmania majors
  • leishmania major, Leishmania
  • Leishmania tropica major
  • Leishmania tropica majors
  • major, Leishmania leishmania
  • majors, Leishmania leishmania
  • majors, Leishmania tropica
  • tropica major, Leishmania
  • tropica majors, Leishmania

Note

  • infection: coordinate with LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; coordinate with specific protozoan terms (ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN, etc.) if pertinent

Scope note

  • A parasitic hemoflagellate of the subgenus Leishmania leishmania that infects man and animals and causes cutaneous leishmaniasis (LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS) of the Old World. Transmission is by Phlebotomus sandflies.

History note

  • 94; was LEISHMANIA TROPICA MAJOR see LEISHMANIA TROPICA 1992-93; was LEISHMANIA MAJOR see LEISHMANIA TROPICA 1986-91

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018320

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