Immunity to Lutzomyia whitmani Saliva Protects against Experimental Leishmania braziliensis Infection.

• Egile Nagusiak: Regis Gomes (Egilea), Katrine Cavalcanti (Egilea), Clarissa Teixeira (Egilea), Augusto M Carvalho (Egilea), Paulo S Mattos (Egilea), Juqueline R Cristal (Egilea), Aline C Muniz (Egilea), José Carlos Miranda (Egilea), Camila I de Oliveira (Egilea), Aldina Barral (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Previous works showed that immunization with saliva from Lutzomyia intermedia, a vector of Leishmania braziliensis, does not protect against experimental infection. However, L. braziliensis is also transmitted by Lutzomyia whitmani, a sand fly species closely related to Lu. intermedia. Herein we des...