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WHILE studying the glucose metabolism of Leishmania donovani, the protozoan organism causing visceral leishmaniasis, it has been found that cell suspensions of this organism in a saline-bicarbonate buffer containing glucose can assimilate, a measurable amount of carbon dioxide along with the formation of different acidic end products1.
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CHATTERJEE, A., GHOSH, J. Carbon Dioxide Assimilation by Leishmania donovani . Nature 185, 322 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185322a0
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