leishmania
/liːʃˈmeɪnɪə
/noun (plural same or leishmanias or leishmaniae /liːʃˈmeɪnɪʌɪ/)
A single-celled parasitic protozoan which spends part of its life cycle in the gut of a sandfly and part in the blood and other tissues of a vertebrate.
- Genus Leishmania, phylum Kinetoplastida, kingdom Protista.
- The leishmania parasite is spread by the bite of a sandfly not known to exist in Australia.
- Parts of the malaria and leishmania parasite genomes are also known.
Origin
Modern Latin, from the name of William B. Leishman (1856–1926), British pathologist.
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