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SUBMITTER: Nevatte TM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5522394 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nevatte T M TM Ward R D RD Sedda L L Hamilton J G C JGC Hamilton J G C JGC
Scientific reports 20170721 1
In Brazil, human and canine visceral leishmaniasis is caused by infection with Leishmania infantum, a Protist parasite transmitted by blood-feeding female Lutzomyia longipalpis sand flies. The objective of this study was to determine if the odour of hamsters, infected with Le. infantum, was more attractive than the odour of the same hamsters, before they were infected. The attractiveness of odour collected from individual hamsters (n = 13), before they were infected, was compared in a longitudin ...[more]