The Journal of Parasitology, Vol. 82, No. 4 (Aug., 1996), pp. 632-635 (4 pages) Specific receptors may be involved in the process of attachment of Leishmania donovani promastigotes to macrophage ...
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a severe infectious disease caused by a protozoan parasite: Leishmania donovani in East Africa and the Indian subcontinent and Leishmania infantum in Latin America ...
About 30 years ago, scientists discovered the two species of single-cell parasites that cause VL, Leishmania donovani and Leishmania infantum, made the same lipid sterol, called ergosterol ...