a single-celled parasitic protozoan which spends part of its life cycle in the gut of a sandfly and part in the blood and other tissues of a vertebrate 利什曼虫
Genus Leishmania, phylum Kinetoplastida, kingdom Protista 利什曼虫属,动基体门,原生生物界
语源
modern Latin, from the name of William B. Leishman (1856–1926), British pathologist