Guan L R, Yang Y Q, Qu J Q, Shen W X
Institute of Parasitic Diseases (IPD), Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine (CAPM), Shanghai, China.
Bull World Health Organ. 1995;73(5):667-72.
Reported are the results of multidisciplinary studies on Leishmania turanica, which was isolated from the auricular tissues of naturally infected great gerbils in Xinjiang, China. Discussed are the biology of the parasite, its molecular biology, its pathogenicity in rodents and humans and its vectors. This was the first time that L. turanica had been reported in China. L. turanica is highly pathogenic in BALB/c mice, with the resulting systemic infection being lethal, and it causes dermal lesions in Meriones unguiculatus. L. turanica parasitizes the macrophages in the interstitium of the testes of Cricetulus barabensis, and entirely destroys the Leydig's cells of severely infected animals. Inoculation of L. turanica can induce simian and human cutaneous leishmaniasis. The cell membrane and flagella of the promastigotes of L. turanica have rather active ACPase. The major vectors of L. turanica were Phlebotomus mongolensis and P. andrejevi.
报告了对从中国新疆自然感染的大沙鼠耳部组织中分离出的图兰利什曼原虫的多学科研究结果。讨论了该寄生虫的生物学特性、分子生物学、在啮齿动物和人类中的致病性及其传播媒介。这是图兰利什曼原虫首次在中国被报道。图兰利什曼原虫对BALB/c小鼠具有高度致病性,由此导致的全身感染是致命的,并且它会在长爪沙鼠身上引起皮肤病变。图兰利什曼原虫寄生于黑线仓鼠睾丸间质中的巨噬细胞,并完全破坏严重感染动物的莱迪希细胞。接种图兰利什曼原虫可诱发猴和人类皮肤利什曼病。图兰利什曼原虫前鞭毛体的细胞膜和鞭毛具有相当活跃的酸性磷酸酶。图兰利什曼原虫的主要传播媒介是蒙古白蛉和安氏白蛉。