Leishmania adalah genus tripanosomes yang menyebabkan penyakit leismaniasis.[1][2][3] Mereka disebarkan oleh lalat dari genus Phlebotomus di Dunia Lama serta lalat dari genus Lutzomyia di Dunia Baru. Inang utama mereka adalah vertebrata, termasuk hewan pengerat dan manusia.
Terdapat 53 spesies yang telah diakui di dalam genus ini, walaupun beberapa masih dipertentangkan. Terdapat paling tidak 20 spesies yang menyerang manusia.
Klasifikasi
Subgenus Leishmania
- Leishmania aethiopica
- Leishmania amazonensis
- Leishmania arabica
- Leishmania donovani
- Leishmania gerbilli
- Leishmania hertigi
- Leishmania infantum
- Leishmania killicki
- Leishmania major
- Leishmania mexicana
- Leishmania siamensis
- Leishmania tropica
- Leishmania turanica
Subgenus Sauroleishmania
- Leishmania adleri
- Leishmania agamae
- Leishmania ceramodactyli
- Leishmania deanei
- Leishmania garnhami
- Leishmania gulikae
- Leishmania gymnodactyli
- Leishmania hemidactyli
- Leishmania hoogstraali
- Leishmania nicollei
- Leishmania senegalensis
- Leishmania tarentolae
Subgenus Viannia
- Leishmania braziliensis
- Leishmania colombiensis
- Leishmania equatorensis
- Leishmania guyanensis
- Leishmania lainsoni
- Leishmania naiffi
- Leishmania panamensis
- Leishmania peruviana
- Leishmania pifanoi
- Leishmania shawi
- Leishmania utingensis
The genus Endotrypanum is also included here as this may be reclassified as Leishmania
Genus Endotrypanum
- Endotrypanum monterogeii
- Endotrypanum schaudinni
L. enrittii complex
- Leishmania enrittii
- Leishmania martiniquensis[4]
Catatan kaki
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- ^ Ansari MY, Equbal A, Dikhit MR, Mansuri R, Rana S, Ali V, Sahoo GC, Das P (Nov 2015). "Establishment of Correlation between In-Silico &In-Vitro Test Analysis against Leishmania HGPRT to inhibitors". International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 83: 78–96. doi:10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2015.11.051. PMID 26616453.
- ^ Desbois, Nicole; Pratlong, Francine; Quist, Danièle; Dedet, Jean-Pierre (2014). "Leishmania (Leishmania) martiniquensis n. sp. (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae), description of the parasite responsible for cutaneous leishmaniasis in Martinique Island (French West Indies)". Parasite. 21: 12. doi:10.1051/parasite/2014011. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 3952653
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Bacaan lanjut
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