Some american soldiers serving in iraq have become infected with a skin disease caused by a protist called leishmania, which is transmitted by sand flies. the leishmania organism bears flagella with a unique crystalline rod structure. one of its life stages is squiggly and worm-like in appearance, much like its relative in the same group, trypanosoma. leishmania belongs to the group

Leshmaniais a genus of trypanosomes that are dependable for the ailment leishmaniasis.They are unfold via sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus within the historic World, and of the genus Lutzomyia in the New World. At least 93 sandfly species are demonstrated or possible vectors worldwide. Their foremost hosts are vertebrates; Leishmania customarily infects hyraxes, canids, rodents, and humans.
Domain:

Eukaryota

(unranked):

Excavata

Phylum:

Euglenozoa

Class:

Kinetoplastida

Order:

Trypanosomatida

Genus:

Leishmania
Borovsky 1898 (Ross1903)

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