🛑Leishmania
Types of leishmania:
1- Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar,irregular bouts of fever, weight loss, enlargement of the spleen and liver, and anaemia. because of 🔺Leishmania infantum mainly affect children.
🔺Leishmania donovani mainly affect adults .
1- Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar,irregular bouts of fever, weight loss, enlargement of the spleen and liver, and anaemia. because of 🔺Leishmania infantum mainly affect children.
🔺Leishmania donovani mainly affect adults .
2-Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is the most common form of leishmaniasis and causes skin lesions, mainly ulcers, chiclero ulcer because of
🔺leishmania mexicana 🔺leishmania tropica .
🔺leishmania mexicana 🔺leishmania tropica .
3-Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis leads to partial or total destruction of mucous membranes of the nose, mouth and throat , 🔺leishmania Braziliensis.
🛑The Intermediate host for leishmania is : 🔺sandfly
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