Leishman-Donovan bodies

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round or oval bodies found in reticuloendothelial cells, especially those of the spleen and liver, in visceral leishmaniasis; they are amastigote intracellular stages of Leishmania donovani. The term is also used to designate similar forms of L. tropica found in macrophages in lesions of cutaneous leishmaniasis.

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