Leishmania tropica

Leishmania tropica is a species of flagellate parasites that infects humans and hyraxes, and the cause of the disease Leishmaniasis RecidivansOr bugdadsore, a form of cutaneous leishmaniasis. L. tropica infection results in non-ulcerating disease.Cause Oriental sores<Korean J Parasitol. 2007 Jun;45(2):103-9.> <Mahmoudzadeh-Niknam H1, Kiaei SS, Iravani D.> Saroufim, Maya; Charafeddine, Khalil; Issa, Grace (October 2014). 'Ongoing Epidemic of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis among Syrian Refugees, Lebanon'. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 20 (10): 1712–1715. doi:10.3201/eid2010.140288. PMC 4193275. PMID 25279543. Solomon, Michal; Schwartz, Eli; Pavlotsky, Felix (Aug 2014). 'Leishmania tropica in children: A retrospective study'. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 71 (2): 271–277. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2013.12.047. PMID 24775403. Krayter, Lena; Alam, Mohammad Zahangir; Rhajaoui, Mohamed; Schnur, Lionel F. (December 2014). 'Multilocus Microsatellite Typing reveals intra-focal genetic diversity among strains of Leishmania tropica in Chichaoua Province, Morocco'. Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 28: 233–239. doi:10.1016/j.meegid.2014.09.037. HAMMOUDEH, Nour; KWEIDER, Mahmoud; ABBADY, Abdul-Qader; SOUKKARIEH, Chadi (Oct 2014). 'Sequencing and Gene Expression Analysis of Leishmania tropica LACK Gene' (PDF). Iranian J Parasitol. 9 (4): 574–583. Retrieved 9 February 2015.