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Leishmania Manipulation of Sand Fly Feeding Behavior Results in Enhanced Transmission

In nature the prevalence of Leishmania infection in whole sand fly populations can be very low (<0.1%), even in areas of endemicity and high transmission. It has long since been assumed that the protozoan parasite Leishmania can manipulate the feeding behavior of its sand fly vector, thus enhanci...

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Autores principales: Rogers, Matthew E, Bates, Paul A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1904410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17604451
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.0030091