Leishmaniasis Definition

lēshmə-nīə-sĭs
noun
Any of several infectious diseases, esp. kala azar, caused by protozoan parasites (genus Leishmania)
Webster's New World
A disease, such as kala-azar or either of two clinically distinct ulcerative skin diseases, caused by flagellate protozoans of the genus Leishmania.
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Noun

Singular:
leishmaniasis
Plural:
leishmaniases

Origin of Leishmaniasis

  • New Latin Leishmania genus of protozoans (after Sir William Boog Leishman (1865–1926), British medical officer) –iasis

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From leishmania.

    From Wiktionary

Leishmaniasis Sentence Examples

  • An illness called cutaneous leishmaniasis [CL ], spread by the sandfly, can occur in Southern Spain.

  • A study looking at severe and disfiguring mucocutaneous leishmaniasis has identified a single gene which predisposes to this particular type of disease.

  • It is generally accepted that the nature of the T cell response is one of the crucial factors controlling experimental and human leishmaniasis.

  • Sandflies and the transmission of the tropical disease leishmaniasis of sandfly gut infected with Leishmania parasites.

  • The diseases, which include African sleeping sickness, Chagas ' disease and leishmaniasis, are among the most neglected in the world.

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