Molecular Diversity between Salivary Proteins from New World and Old World Sand Flies with Emphasis on Bichromomyia olmeca, the Sand Fly Vector of Leishmania mexicana in Mesoamerica.

• Main Authors: Maha Abdeladhim (Author), Iliano V Coutinho-Abreu (Author), Shannon Townsend (Author), Silvia Pasos-Pinto (Author), Laura Sanchez (Author), Manoochehr Rasouli (Author), Anderson B Guimaraes-Costa (Author), Hamide Aslan (Author), Ivo M B Francischetti (Author), Fabiano Oliveira (Author), Ingeborg Becker (Author), Shaden Kamhawi (Author), Jose M C Ribeiro (Author), Ryan C Jochim (Author), Jesus G Valenzuela (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Sand fly saliva has been shown to have proteins with potent biological activities, salivary proteins that can be used as biomarkers of vector exposure, and salivary proteins that are candidate vaccines against different forms of leishmaniasis. Sand fly salivary gland transcriptomic approa...