Speculations on biting midges and other bloodsucking arthropods as alternative vectors of Leishmania

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Seblova, Veronika ^a   Sadlova, Jovana ^a   Carpenter, Simon ^b   Volf, Petr ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culicoides; Leishmania; Phlebotomus

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES NUBECULOSUS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; LEISHMANIASIS; LIFE CYCLE; MICROSCOPY; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOPHAGIDAE; SERGENTOMYIA; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSMISSION;

ARTHROPODA; CERATOPOGONIDAE; PHLEBOTOMINAE;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84901237054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-222     Document Type: Article

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