Colonisation resistance in the sand fly gut: Leishmania protects Lutzomyia longipalpis from bacterial infection

Colonisation resistance in the sand fly gut: Leishmania protects Lutzomyia longipalpis from bacterial infection

Abstract Background Phlebotomine sand flies transmit the haemoflagellate Leishmania, the causative agent of human leishmaniasis. The Leishmania promastigotes are confined to the gut lumen and are exposed to the gut microbiota within female sand flies. Here we study the colonisation resistance of yea...

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Main Authors: Mauricio RV Sant’Anna, Hector Diaz-Albiter, Kelsilândia Aguiar-Martins, Waleed S Al Salem, Reginaldo R Cavalcante, Viv M Dillon, Paul A Bates, Fernando A Genta, Rod J Dillon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2014-07-01
Series:Parasites & Vectors
Subjects:
Leishmania
Lutzomyia
Asaia
Pseudozyma
Serratia
Sand fly
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-329

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https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-329

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