Lectins and toxins in the plant diet of Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae) can kill Leishmania major promastigotes in the sandfly and in culture

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 351-356

  Jacobson, R L ^a   Schlein, Y ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; GLUCOSE; LECTIN; TOXIN;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE VECTOR; PHLEBOTOMUS; PLANT; PROMASTIGOTE; PSYCHODIDAE; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; DIET; INSECT VECTORS; LECTINS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PHLEBOTOMUS; PLANT EXTRACTS; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

BRASSICACEAE; CAPPARIS SPINOSA; DIPTERA; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; PROSOPIS FARCTA; PSYCHODIDAE; RICINUS COMMUNIS; SOLANACEAE; SOLANUM VILLOSUM; TAMARICACEAE; TAMARIX;

EID: 0032772644     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034989958348     Document Type: Article

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