Flying vaccinator; A transgenic mosquito delivers a Leishmania vaccine via blood feeding

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 391-398

  Yamamoto, D S ^a   Nagumo, H ^a   Yoshida, S ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Leishmania; Malaria; Mosquito; Salivary gland; SP 15

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; LEISHMANIA VACCINE; PHOTOPROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLYING; GENETICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOLOGY; LEISHMANIA; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; SALIVARY GLAND; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTIBODY FORMATION; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CULICIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS VACCINES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SALIVARY GLANDS; VACCINATION;

HEXAPODA; MUS;

EID: 77951941719     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: 13652583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2010.01000.x     Document Type: Article

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