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Leishmania chitinase facilitates colonization of sand fly vectors and enhances transmission to mice

Chitinases of trypanosomatid parasites have been proposed to fulfil various roles in their blood-feeding arthropod vectors but so far none have been directly tested using a molecular approach. We characterized the ability of Leishmania mexicana episomally transfected with LmexCht1 (the L. mexicana c...

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Autores principales: Rogers, Matthew E, Hajmová, Martina, Joshi, Manju B, Sadlova, Jovana, Dwyer, Dennis M, Volf, Petr, Bates, Paul A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2408650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18284631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-5822.2008.01132.x