The paratransgenic sand fly: A platform for control of Leishmania transmission

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Hurwitz, Ivy ^a,b   Hillesland, Heidi ^a,b,d   Fieck, Annabeth ^a,b   Das, Pradeep ^c   Durvasula, Ravi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medicai Sciences (ICMR)   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTION CONTROL; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; PHLEBOTOMUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL LOAD; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DRUG EFFECT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDIA; LARVA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; REPORTER GENE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS ARGENTIPES;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL LOAD; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INDIA; LARVA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PHLEBOTOMUS;

EID: 79956030196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-82     Document Type: Article

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