Experimental acquisition, development, and transmission of Leishmania tropica by Phlebotomus duboscqi

Acta Tropica

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-42

  Hanafi, Hanafi A ^a   El Din, El Shaimaa M Nour ^a   El Hossary, Shabaan S I ^a   Kaldas, Rania M ^a   Villinski, Jeffrey T ^a   Furman, Barry D ^a   Fryauff, David J ^a  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Leishmania tropica; Phlebotomus duboscqi; Transmission; Vector competency

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA;

DNA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLAGELLATE; FLY; PARASITE; RNA;

AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD; BONE MARROW; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HAMSTER; KENYA; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS; LIVER; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMASTIGOTE; PSYCHODIDAE; SKIN DEFECT; SPLEEN; SUSPENSION;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE VECTORS; HUMANS; KENYA; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS DUBOSCQI;

EID: 84868697676     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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