Leishmania braziliensis MHOM/BR/75/M2904 | Lb

[ Euglenozoa | Kinetoplastida | Trypanosomatidae | . . .
. . . | Viannia | Leishmania braziliensis species complex | Leishmania braziliensis ]

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Taxonomy: Eukaryota | Euglenozoa | Kinetoplastida | Trypanosomatidae | Leishmaniinae | Leishmania | Viannia | Leishmania braziliensis species complex | Leishmania braziliensis Synonym: Leishmania viannia, Leishmania brasiliensis, Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis Comment: A parasitic hemoflagellate of the subgenus Leishmania viannia that infects man and animals. It causes cutaneous, diffuse cutaneous, and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis depending on the subspecies of this organism. The sandfly, Lutzomyia, is the vector. The Leishmania braziliensis complex includes the subspecies braziliensis and peruviana. Uta, a form of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the New World, is caused by the subspecies peruviana. Go to NCBI Taxonomy (420245) Encyclopedia of life Wikipedia Projects: National Center for Biotechnology Information: NCBI Protozoa genomes The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute: The Leishmania braziliensis Genome Project TriTrypDB - The Kinetoplastid Genome Resource: TriTrypDB Publication: Peacock CS, Seeger K, Harris D et. al. (2007) Comparative genomic analysis of three Leishmania species that cause diverse human disease. Nat Genet 39, 839-847. 10.1038/ng2053