Kinetoplastids are a group of flagellated protozoans that include the species Trypanosoma
and Leishmania, which are human pathogens with devastating health and economic effects …

Unicellular flagellates of the family Trypanosomatidae are obligatory parasites of
invertebrates, vertebrates and plants. Dixenous species are aetiological agents of a number …

To survive extremely different environments, intracellular parasites require highly adaptable
physiological and metabolic systems. Leishmania donovani extracellular promastigotes …

Leishmania parasites alternate between extracellular promastigote stages in the insect
vector and an obligate intracellular amastigote stage that proliferates within the …

Protozoan parasites belonging to the genus Leishmania exhibit a pronounced tropism for
macrophages although they have the capacity to infect a variety of other phagocytic and non …

Leishmania occurs in several developmental forms and thus undergoes complex cell
differentiation events during its life-cycle. Those are required to allow the parasite to adapt to …

The co-infection cases involving dixenous Leishmania spp.(mostly of the L. donovani
complex) and presumably monoxenous trypanosomatids in immunocompromised …

Leishmania spp. are sandfly-transmitted parasitic protozoa that cause a spectrum of
important diseases and lifelong chronic infections in humans. In the mammalian host, these …

Leishmania and Trypanosoma belong to the Trypanosomatidae family and cause important
human infections such as leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and sleeping sickness …

Trypanosoma brucei, as well as Trypanosoma cruzi and more than 20 species of the genus
Leishmania, form a group of flagellated protists that threaten human health. These …