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Leishmania major Glycosylation Mutants Require Phosphoglycans (lpg2 (−)) but Not Lipophosphoglycan (lpg1 (−)) for Survival in Permissive Sand Fly Vectors

BACKGROUND: Sand fly species able to support the survival of the protozoan parasite Leishmania have been classified as permissive or specific, based upon their ability to support a wide or limited range of strains and/or species. Studies of a limited number of fly/parasite species combinations have...

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Autores principales: Svárovská, Anna, Ant, Thomas H., Seblová, Veronika, Jecná, Lucie, Beverley, Stephen M., Volf, Petr
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2797086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20084096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000580