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Leishmania
''Leishmania'' is a genus of trypanosomes that are responsible for the disease leishmaniasis. They are spread by sandflies of the genus ''Phlebotomus'' in the Old World, and of the genus ''Lutzomyia'' in the New World. At least 93 sandfly species are proven or probable vectors worldwide.〔WHO (2010) Annual report. Geneva〕 Their primary hosts are vertebrates; ''Leishmania'' commonly infects hyraxes, canids, rodents, and humans.
==History==
The first written reference to the conspicuous symptoms of cutaneous leishmaniasis surfaced in the Paleotropics within oriental texts dating back to the 7th century BC (allegedly transcribed from sources several hundred years older, between 1500 and 2000 BC). Due to its broad and persistent prevalence throughout antiquity as a mysterious disease of diverse symptomatic outcomes, leishmaniasis has been dubbed with various names ranging from “white leprosy” to “black fever”. Some of these names suggest links to negative cultural beliefs or mythology, which still feed into the social stigmatization of leishmaniasis today.
Members of an ancient genus of the ''Leishmania'' parasite, Paleoleishmania, have been detected in fossilized sand flies dating back to the early Cretaceous period, however, the causative agent for the disease was only discovered in 1901 as a concurrent finding by William Boog Leishman and Charles Donovan. They independently visualised microscopic single-celled parasites (later called Leishman-Donovan bodies) living within the cells of infected human organs. The parasitic genus would later be classed as Trypanosomatid protozoans under the phylogenetic designation, ''Leishmania donovani''. Several species have since been classified and grouped under two major subgenera i.e. ''Leishmania Viannia'' (generally located in the Neotropics) or ''Leishmania Leishmania'' (generally located in the Paleotropics, with the major exception of the ''L. mexicana'' subgroup).
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