Synthetic peptides as a novel approach for detecting antibodies against sand fly saliva.

• Main Authors: Michal Sima (Author), Blanka Ferencova (Author), Tapan Bhattacharyya (Author), Michael A Miles (Author), Sergey V Litvinov (Author), Asrat Hailu (Author), Gad Baneth (Author), Petr Volf (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Hosts repeatedly bitten by sand flies develop antibodies against sand fly saliva and screening of these immunoglobulins can be employed to estimate the risk of Leishmania transmission, to indicate the feeding preferences of sand flies, or to evaluate the effectiveness of vector control ca...