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Trypanosoma brucei Modifies the Tsetse Salivary Composition, Altering the Fly Feeding Behavior That Favors Parasite Transmission

Tsetse flies are the notorious transmitters of African trypanosomiasis, a disease caused by the Trypanosoma parasite that affects humans and livestock on the African continent. Metacyclic infection rates in natural tsetse populations with Trypanosoma brucei, including the two human-pathogenic subspe...

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Autores principales: Van Den Abbeele, Jan, Caljon, Guy, De Ridder, Karin, De Baetselier, Patrick, Coosemans, Marc
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/PMC2880569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20532213
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000926