Fig. 4

Photomicrographs of stained smears showing Leishmania infections. a May-Grunwald-Giemsa stained preparation from a case of feline leishmaniasis showing macrophages infected with L. infantum amastigotes. Cropped from original. Citation: Pennisi et al. [157]. LeishVet update and recommendations on feline leishmaniosis. Parasit Vectors. 2015;8(1):302. b Haematoxylin and eosin stained histological preparation from a canine deep dermis mucocutaneous lesion showing Leishmania amastigotes and Leishmania-infected fibroblasts (arrowheads). Cropped from original. Citation: Baneth et al. [158]. Mucocutaneous Leishmania tropica infection in a dog from a human cutaneous leishmaniasis focus. Parasit Vectors. 2014;7:5. c Haematoxylin and eosin stained preparation from a canine with cutaneous leishmaniasis showing intracellular Leishmania amastigotes in macrophages (arrows). Cropped from original. Citation: Ordeix et al. [159]. Histological and parasitological distinctive findings in clinically-lesioned and normal-looking skin of dogs with different clinical stages of leishmaniosis. Parasit Vectors. 2017;10:8. d May-Grunwald-Giemsa stained preparation from an aspirate of a mucocutaneous lesion predominately showing intracellular Leishmania amastigotes and few extracellular amastigotes. Cropped from original. Citation: Baneth et al. [158]. a-d Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)