Discovery of mosquito saliva microRNAs during CHIKV infection.

• Glavni autori: Payal D Maharaj (Autor), Steven G Widen (Autor), Jing Huang (Autor), Thomas G Wood (Autor), Saravanan Thangamani (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Mosquito borne pathogens are transmitted to humans via saliva during blood feeding. Mosquito saliva is a complex concoction of many secretory factors that modulate the feeding foci to enhance pathogen infection and establishment. Multiple salivary proteins/factors have been identified/characterized...