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Kinetics of Antibody Response in BALB/c and C57BL/6 Mice Bitten by Phlebotomus papatasi

BACKGROUND: Phlebotomine sand flies are blood-sucking insects transmitting Leishmania parasites. In bitten hosts, sand fly saliva elicits specific immune response and the humoral immunity was shown to reflect the intensity of sand fly exposure. Thus, anti-saliva antibodies were suggested as the pote...

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Autores principales: Vlkova, Michaela, Rohousova, Iva, Hostomska, Jitka, Pohankova, Lucia, Zidkova, Lenka, Drahota, Jan, Valenzuela, Jesus G., Volf, Petr
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3393673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22802977
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001719