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Leishmania mortality in sand fly blood meal is not species-specific and does not result from direct effect of proteinases

BACKGROUND: Leishmania development in sand flies is confined to the alimentary tract and is closely connected with blood meal digestion. Previously, it has been published that activities of sand fly midgut proteases are harmful to Leishmania, especially to amastigote-promastigote transition forms. H...

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Autores principales: Pruzinova, Katerina, Sadlova, Jovana, Myskova, Jitka, Lestinova, Tereza, Janda, Jozef, Volf, Petr
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5769529/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29335002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2613-2