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

• Main Authors: Tereza Lestinova (Author), Iva Rohousova (Author), Michal Sima (Author), Camila I de Oliveira (Author), Petr Volf (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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 saliva, whic...