Scanning electron microscopy ofLeishmania major inPhlebotomus papatasi
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Zeitschrift Fur Parasitenkunde-Parasitology Research
- Vol. 72 (4) , 423-431
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00927886
Abstract
The morphology ofLeishmania major parasites and their interactions with various regions of the alimentary canal ofPhlebotomus papatasi were studied by scanning electron microscopy. Parasites were observed to undergo development initiated with the ingestion of amastigotes and culminating in a characteristic distribution of four distinct morphological forms in various parts of the alimentary canal: namely, large numbers of elongate nectomonads in the abdominal mid-gut, haptomonad forms attached to the cuticle of the stomodeal valve, small spherical forms attached to the esophagus and masses of short promastigotes, believed to be the infective forms, lying free in the anterior thoracic mid-gut and the esophagus.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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