Canine Antibodies against Salivary Recombinant Proteins of Phlebotomus perniciosus: A Longitudinal Study in an Endemic Focus of Canine Leishmaniasis.

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Tatiana Kostalova (مؤلف), Tereza Lestinova (مؤلف), Petra Sumova (مؤلف), Michaela Vlkova (مؤلف), Iva Rohousova (مؤلف), Eduardo Berriatua (مؤلف), Gaetano Oliva (مؤلف), Eleonora Fiorentino (مؤلف), Aldo Scalone (مؤلف), Marina Gramiccia (مؤلف), Luigi Gradoni (مؤلف), Petr Volf (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Phlebotomine sand flies are vectors of Leishmania parasites. During blood feeding, sand flies deposit into the host skin immunogenic salivary proteins which elicit specific antibody responses. These anti-saliva antibodies enable an estimate of the host exposure to sand flies and, in leish...