"Leishmania mexicana" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A parasitic hemoflagellate of the subgenus Leishmania leishmania that infects man and animals including rodents. The Leishmania mexicana complex causes both cutaneous (LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS) and diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis (LEISHMANIASIS, DIFFUSE CUTANEOUS) and includes the subspecies amazonensis, garnhami, mexicana, pifanoi, and venezuelensis. L. m. mexicana causes chiclero ulcer, a form of cutaneous leishmaniasis (LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS) in the New World. The sandfly, Lutzomyia, appears to be the vector.
| Descriptor ID |
D007894
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.268.475.868.488.410
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| Concept/Terms |
Leishmania mexicana- Leishmania mexicana
- Leishmania mexicanas
- mexicana, Leishmania
- Leishmania (Leishmania) mexicana
- Leishmania leishmania mexicana
- Leishmania leishmania mexicanas
- leishmania mexicana, Leishmania
- mexicana, Leishmania leishmania
- mexicanas, Leishmania leishmania
Leishmania mexicana mexicana- Leishmania mexicana mexicana
- Leishmania mexicana mexicanas
- mexicana mexicana, Leishmania
- mexicana mexicanas, Leishmania
- mexicana, Leishmania mexicana
Leishmania mexicana amazonensis- Leishmania mexicana amazonensis
- Leishmania mexicana amazonenses
- amazonenses, Leishmania mexicana
- amazonensis, Leishmania mexicana
- mexicana amazonensis, Leishmania
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Leishmania mexicana" by people in Profiles.
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Rath CT, Vivarini ?C, Dos Santos JV, Medina JM, Saliba AM, Mottram JC, Lima APCA, Calegari-Silva TC, Pereira RM, Lopes UG. Toll-Like Receptor 3 (TLR3) Is Engaged in the Intracellular Survival of the Protozoan Parasite Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis. Infect Immun. 2022 09 15; 90(9):e0032422.
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Okuda K, Tong M, Dempsey B, Moore KJ, Gazzinelli RT, Silverman N. Leishmania amazonensis Engages CD36 to Drive Parasitophorous Vacuole Maturation. PLoS Pathog. 2016 06; 12(6):e1005669.
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Calabrese KS, Silva LS, Hardoim DJ, Souza CS, Abreu-Silva AL. Ocular experimental leishmaniasis in C57BL/10 and BALB/c mice induced by Leishmania amazonensis infection. Exp Parasitol. 2013 Feb; 133(2):156-61.
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Calabrese KS, Silva LS, Carvalho LO, Hardoim DJ, Silva-Almeida Md, Mortara RA, Souza CS. Infection of retinal epithelial cells with L. amazonensis impacts in extracellular matrix proteins. Parasitol Res. 2011 Sep; 109(3):727-36.
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Coler RN, Skeiky YA, Bernards K, Greeson K, Carter D, Cornellison CD, Modabber F, Campos-Neto A, Reed SG. Immunization with a polyprotein vaccine consisting of the T-Cell antigens thiol-specific antioxidant, Leishmania major stress-inducible protein 1, and Leishmania elongation initiation factor protects against leishmaniasis. Infect Immun. 2002 Aug; 70(8):4215-25.
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Hern?ndez DE, Rodriguez N, Wessolossky M, Convit J. Visceral leishmaniasis due to a Leishmania variant that shares kinetoplast DNA sequences with Leishmania braziliensis and Leishmania mexicana in a patient infected with human immunodeficiency virus: identification of the Leishmania species with use of the polymerase chain reaction. Clin Infect Dis. 1995 Sep; 21(3):701-2.