Leishmania infantum-derived lipophosphoglycan as an antigen in the accurate serodiagnosis of canine leishmaniasis.

• Main Authors: Ricardo Dias Portela (Author), Rodrigo Pedro Soares (Author), Gabriela Porfírio Passos (Author), Daniela Farias Larangeira (Author), Thiago Doria Barral (Author), Julia Ramos Sampaio (Author), Marcos F Bernardo (Author), Edneia Venâncio Alves-Sobrinho (Author), Maria Terezinha Bahia (Author), Flaviane Alves Pinho (Author), Stella Maria Barrouin-Melo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Lipophosphoglycan (LPG) is the major surface glycoconjugate of Leishmania protozoan and has an important biological role in host-parasite interactions both in the midgut epithelium of the sand fly vector and in the vertebrate macrophages. Canine leishmaniasis (CanL) is a chronic infectious disease p...