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Insights into the sand fly saliva: Blood-feeding and immune interactions between sand flies, hosts, and Leishmania

BACKGROUND: Leishmaniases are parasitic diseases present worldwide that are transmitted to the vertebrate host by the bite of an infected sand fly during a blood feeding. Phlebotomine sand flies inoculate into the mammalian host Leishmania parasites embedded in promastigote secretory gel (PSG) with...

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Autores principales: Lestinova, Tereza, Rohousova, Iva, Sima, Michal, de Oliveira, Camila I., Volf, Petr
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5509103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28704370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005600