Influence of the Microenvironment in the Transcriptome of Leishmania infantum Promastigotes: Sand Fly versus Culture.

• Hauptverfasser: Pedro J Alcolea (Verfasst von), Ana Alonso (Verfasst von), Mercedes Domínguez (Verfasst von), Víctor Parro (Verfasst von), Maribel Jiménez (Verfasst von), Ricardo Molina (Verfasst von), Vicente Larraga (Verfasst von)
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• Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease caused by Leishmania infantum in the Mediterranean Basin, where domestic dogs and wild canids are the main reservoirs. The promastigote stage replicates and develops within the gut of blood-sucking phlebotomine sand flies. Mature promastigote...