“…the major surface antigen lipophosphoglycan (LPG) (Kel- Leishmania, amastigotes, phagocytes, attachment, activité « lectinlike », Leptomonas. leher et al, 1992 ;Mosser & Handman, 1992) and the metalloproteinase gp63 of the parasite (Russel & Wilhelm, 1986) ; fibronectin, mannose, CR3, CR1, and advanced glycosylation endproducts receptors of macrophages (Wyler et al, 1985 ;Blackwell, 1985 ;Dasilva et al, 1989 ;Wilson & Pearson, 1986 ;Mosser et al, 1987). Considerably less is known about the amastigote-phagocyte interaction.…”