Kinetic analysis of ex vivo human blood infection by Leishmania.

• Main Authors: Inmaculada Moreno (Author), Mercedes Domínguez (Author), Darío Cabañes (Author), Carmen Aizpurua (Author), Alfredo Toraño (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The leishmanioses, vector-borne diseases caused by the trypanosomatid protozoan Leishmania, are transmitted to susceptible mammals by infected phlebotomine sand flies that inoculate promastigotes into hemorrhagic pools created in host skin. We assumed that promastigotes are delivered to a blood pool...