Transovarial passage of Leishmania infantum kDNA in artificially infected Rhipicephalus sanguineus

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 184-185

  Dantas Torres, Filipe ^a   Martins, Thiago F ^b   Paiva Cavalcanti, Milena de ^c   Figueredo, Luciana A ^a   Lima, Bruna S ^c   Brandão Filho, Sinval P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Leishmania infantum; Ticks; Transovarial transmission

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; INOCULATION; LARVA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; OOCYTE; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

IXODIDA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PROTOZOA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; DNA, KINETOPLAST; FEMALE; LARVA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; OVUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 77951920200     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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