Trypanosoma cruzi immune response modulation decreases microbiota in rhodnius prolixus gut and is crucial for parasite survival and development

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Castro, Daniele P ^a   Moraes, Caroline S ^a   Gonzalez, Marcelo S ^b   Ratcliffe, Norman A ^a   Azambuja, Patrícia ^a,c   Garcia, Eloi S ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Nacional de Entomologia Molecular (INCT EM CNPq)   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NITRATE; NITRITE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIMASTIGOTE; GENETIC STRAIN; GROWTH INHIBITION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE FLORA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE VIABILITY; RHODNIUS; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

HEXAPODA; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHAGAS DISEASE; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; INTESTINES; METAGENOME; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NITRATES; NITRITES; RHODNIUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84860515236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036591     Document Type: Article

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