Leishmania infantum ecto-nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase-2 is an apyrase involved in macrophage infection and expressed in infected dogs.

• Main Authors: Raphael De Souza Vasconcellos (Author), Christiane Mariotini-Moura (Author), Rodrigo Saar Gomes (Author), Tiago Donatelli Serafim (Author), Rafaela de Cássia Firmino (Author), Matheus Silva E Bastos (Author), Felipe Freitas de Castro (Author), Claudia Miranda de Oliveira (Author), Lucas Borges-Pereira (Author), Anna Cláudia Alves de Souza (Author), Ronny Francisco de Souza (Author), Gabriel Andres Tafur Gómez (Author), Aimara da Costa Pinheiro (Author), Talles Eduardo Ferreira Maciel (Author), Abelardo Silva-Júnior (Author), Gustavo Costa Bressan (Author), Márcia Rogéria Almeida (Author), Munira Muhammad Abdel Baqui (Author), Luís Carlos Crocco Afonso (Author), Juliana Lopes Rangel Fietto (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Visceral leishmaniasis is an important tropical disease, and Leishmania infantum chagasi (synonym of Leishmania infantum) is the main pathogenic agent of visceral leishmaniasis in the New World. Recently, ecto-nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolases (E-NTPDases) were identified as enablers of in...