Leishmania-sand fly interactions controlling species-specific vector competence

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 189-196

  Sacks, D L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

BLOOD; COMPETENCE; ENZYME RELEASE; EXCRETION; FLY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; INTESTINE PARASITE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MEAL; MIDGUT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOSIS; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BLOOD; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; INTESTINES; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHLEBOTOMUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; PHLEBOTOMINAE;

EID: 0035048929     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.2001.00115.x     Document Type: Review

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