Tehran University of Medical Sciences Iranian Journal of Parasitology 1735-7020 7 2 2012 06 15 99 102 EN Sh Shirbazou Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran M Jafari Research Center of Molecular Biology, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran AND Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2015 10 03 Cutaneous leishmaniasis is one of the most important parasitic diseases, which are endemic in different parts of Iran.  Leishmania major and L. tropica are the primary causative agents of this disease. The aim of the present study was to detect the multiple forms of L. major in lung. Ppromastigotes of L. major at stationary phase were injected to BALB/c mice. After 60 days, the different forms of Leishmania parasites were checked in lung tissue. Promastigote and amastigote forms of Leishmania parasites were detected. https://ijpa.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijpa/article/view/243 https://ijpa.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijpa/article/download/243/242