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SUBMITTER: Valenzuela JG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2193460 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Valenzuela J G JG Belkaid Y Y Garfield M K MK Mendez S S Kamhawi S S Rowton E D ED Sacks D L DL Ribeiro J M JM
The Journal of experimental medicine 20010801 3
Leishmania parasites are transmitted to their vertebrate hosts by infected phlebotomine sand fly bites. Sand fly saliva is known to enhance Leishmania infection, while immunity to the saliva protects against infection as determined by coinoculation of parasites with vector salivary gland homogenates (SGHs) or by infected sand fly bites (Kamhawi, S., Y. Belkaid, G. Modi, E. Rowton, and D. Sacks. 2000. Science. 290:1351-1354). We have now characterized nine salivary proteins of Phlebotomus papatas ...[more]