Kinetoplastid Parasites (Trypanosomes and Leishmania) is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the kinetoplastid flagellates Trypanosoma and Leishmania, parasites spread by biting insects. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is a kinetoplastid parasite. It excludes apicomplexan parasites and intestinal flagellates. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.
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Leishmania donovani (Wikipedia)
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Leishmania donovani is a species of intracellular parasites belonging to the genus Leishmania, a group of haemoflagellate kinetoplastids that cause the disease leishmaniasis.
Wikipedia: Leishmania
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Leishmania () is a genus of parasitic protozoans, single-celled eukaryotic organisms of the trypanosomatid group that are responsible for the disease leishmaniasis.
Wikipedia: Trypanosoma cruzi
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Trypanosoma cruzi is a species of parasitic kinetoplastid which causes Chagas disease.
Trypanosoma - Wikipedia
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Trypanosoma is a genus of kinetoplastids (class Trypanosomatidae), a group of unicellular parasitic flagellate protozoa under the phylum Euglenozoa.
Wikipedia: Trypanosoma brucei
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Trypanosoma brucei is a species of parasitic kinetoplastid belonging to the genus Trypanosoma that is present in sub-Saharan Africa.
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