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Blood meal identification and parasite detection in laboratory-fed and field-captured Lutzomyia longipalpis by PCR using FTA databasing paper

The phlebotomine sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis takes blood from a variety of wild and domestic animals and transmits Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum chagasi, etiological agent of American visceral leishmaniasis. Blood meal identification in sand flies has depended largely on serological methods bu...

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Autores principales: Sant’Anna, Mauricio R.V., Jones, Nathaniel G., Hindley, Jonathan A., Mendes-Sousa, Antonio F., Dillon, Rod J., Cavalcante, Reginaldo R., Alexander, Bruce, Bates, Paul A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2571954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18606150
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.06.003