Crossword-Solution: LEISHMANIA
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| any protozoon of the genus Leishmania | 1 answer |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AZEEMC
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eruption
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Cutaneous Leishmaniasis - caused by the parasitic protozoa leishmania; transmitted to humans via the bite of sandflies; results in skin lesions that may become chronic; endemic in 88 countries; 90% of cases occur in Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Peru; wild and domesticated animals as well as humans can act as reservoirs of infection.
Roger suggested that it was also capable of transmitting Kala-azar and Patton has described in detail the developmental stages of _Leishmania_, the causative organism of Kala-azar, in the stomach of this bug, but Brumpt declares that the forms described are those of a common, non-pathogenic flagellate to be found in the bug, and have nothing to do with the human disease.
The causative organism is _Leishmania tropica_, which occurs in the diseased tissues as bodies very similar to those found in the spleen in cases of Kala-azar.
Confusion is further likely to arise since herpetomonads pass through pre-flagellate, flagellate and post-flagellate or encysted stages; pre- and post-flagellate stages being oval or rounded and _Leishmania_-like.
These experiments shed an interesting light on the probable origin of _Leishmania_ and its cultural herpetomonad stage, which were very probably once parasitic flagellates in the gut of an insect.