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The Immune Response to Sand Fly Salivary Proteins and Its Influence on Leishmania Immunity

Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease transmitted by bites of phlebotomine sand flies. During Leishmania transmission, sand fly saliva is co-inoculated with parasites into the skin of the mammalian host. Sand fly saliva consists of roughly thirty different salivary proteins, many with known roles...

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Autores principales: Gomes, Regis, Oliveira, Fabiano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Research Foundation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3349933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22593758
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2012.00110