Chicken blood provides a suitable meal for the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis and does not inhibit Leishmania development in the gut

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Sant'Anna, Mauricio Rv ^a   Nascimento, Alexandre ^b   Alexander, Bruce ^a   Dilger, Erin ^a,d   Cavalcante, Reginaldo R ^b   Diaz Albiter, Hector M ^a   Bates, Paul A ^c   Dillon, Rod J ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE; LEISHMANIA; LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE VECTOR; PSYCHODIDAE; RABBIT;

AVES; CANIS FAMILIARIS; GALLUS GALLUS; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PHLEBOTOMINAE;

EID: 77249108557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-3     Document Type: Article

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