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leish·ma·ni·a mex·i·cana

Leishmania mexicana is a Leishmania species and is one of the causative species of leishmaniasis. Leishmania mexicana is an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite that causes the mildest form of leishmaniasis. As is suggested by its name, this species of Leishmania is found in South and Central America. Infection with L. mexicana occurs when an individual is bitten by an infected sand fly that injects the infective promastigotes, which are carried in the proboscis, directly into the skin. The life cycle of this and other Leishmania species are similar and begin when an infected fly bites and injects it promastigotes in the skin of host and once inside these promastigotes are phagocytosed by macrophages that transform into amastigotes and are able to divide. Upon maximum levels of amastigote divisions, the macrophages burst releasing more amastigotes that are again re-phagocytosed. When an uninfected sand fly bites an infected individual, the fly ingest the amastigotes and these transform into promastigotes and divide in the midgut of the fly, finally these promastigotes migrate to the proboscis and are now able to transmit the disease. There are no blood stages in the life cycle of L. mexicana.

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