Insights into the trypanosome-host interactions revealed through transcriptomic analysis of parasitized tsetse fly salivary glands.

• Main Authors: Erich Loza Telleria (Author), Joshua B Benoit (Author), Xin Zhao (Author), Amy F Savage (Author), Sandesh Regmi (Author), Thiago Luiz Alves e Silva (Author), Michelle O'Neill (Author), Serap Aksoy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The agents of sleeping sickness disease, Trypanosoma brucei complex parasites, are transmitted to mammalian hosts through the bite of an infected tsetse. Information on tsetse-trypanosome interactions in the salivary gland (SG) tissue, and on mammalian infective metacyclic (MC) parasites present in...