Leishmania enriettii
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| Muniz and Medina 1948 |
Leishmania enriettii is a parasitic unicellular organism that onlyaffects guinea pigs andcauses skin leishmaniasis in them. This host specificity israther atypicalfor leishmanias and makes the pathogeninterestingas a model organism for research into leishmaniasis in humans . The vector is unknown.
The flagellate form ( amastigot ) of L. enriettii is elliptical and has an average size of 5.2 × 2.5 µm. The cell nucleus and kinetoplast are clearly visible in the stained microscopic specimen. It is characteristic that one to three fibrils are visible as remnants of the flagella within the cell . The flagellated form ( promastigote ) occurs in cultures and presumably in the invertebrate vector. It is 8–10 × 3–4 µm in size and has a 10–14 µm long flagellum.
literature
- Joseph E. Wagner: The Biology of the Guinea Pig . Academic Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4832-8932-8 , pp. 164-165 .