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Colonisation resistance in the sand fly gut: Leishmania protects Lutzomyia longipalpis from bacterial infection
BACKGROUND: Phlebotomine sand flies transmit the haemoflagellate Leishmania, the causative agent of human leishmaniasis. The Leishmania promastigotes are confined to the gut lumen and are exposed to the gut microbiota within female sand flies. Here we study the colonisation resistance of yeast and b...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4112039/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25051919 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-329 |