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amastigote
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amastigote /amas·ti·gote/ (ah-mas´tĭ-gōt) the nonflagellate, intracellular, morphologic stage in the development of certain hemoflagellates, resembling the typical adult form of Leishmania.
a·mas·ti·gote (-mst-gt)
n.
See Leishman-Donovan body.
amastigote
an early stage in the life cycle of trypanosomes, found in invertebrates. The body is rounded and the flagellum is absent or represented by a short fibril. The kinetoplast is present.
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The central scale was removed from one of the lesions, and scrapings from the base of the lesion were stained with Giemsa stain, which showed intracellular amastigotes with peripheral nuclei and rod-shaped kinetoplasts.
Leishmaniasis, autoimmune rheumatic disease, and anti-tumor necrosis ... by Xynos, Ioannis D.; Tektonidou, Maria G.; Pikazis, Dimitrios; Sipsas, Nikolaos V. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Ideally, scrapings from underneath the undermined lesion's edge reveal amastigotes, but a wealth of confirmatory indirect methods exists.
Parasitic infections often present with nonspecific symptoms by Grobusch, Martin P.; Menezes, Colin N. / CME: Your SA Journal of CPD
Briefly, axenic amastigotes were grown in SM medium (Cunningham, 1977) at pH 5.
Evaluation of antiprotozoal and antimycobacterial activities of the ... by Tasdemir, Deniz; Brun, Reto; Franzblau, Scott G.; Sezgin, Yukselen; Calis, Ihsan / Phytomedicine: International Journal of Phytotherapy & Phytopharmacology
 
 
 
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