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SUBMITTER: Louradour I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5587349 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Louradour Isabelle I Monteiro Carolina Cunha CC Inbar Ehud E Ghosh Kashinath K Merkhofer Richard R Lawyer Phillip P Paun Andrea A Smelkinson Margery M Secundino Nagila N Lewis Michael M Erram Dinesh D Zurek Ludek L Sacks David D
Cellular microbiology 20170619 10
For many arthropod vectors, the diverse bacteria and fungi that inhabit the gut can negatively impact pathogen colonization. Our attempts to exploit antibiotic treatment of colonized Phlebotomus duboscqi sand flies in order to improve their vector competency for Leishmania major resulted instead in flies that were refractory to the development of transmissible infections due to the inability of the parasite to survive and to colonize the anterior midgut with infective, metacyclic stage promastig ...[more]