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Characterisation of Geranylgeranyl Diphosphate Synthase from the Sandfly Lutzomyia Longipalpis

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2023
Leishmaniasis is a debilitating and often fatal neglected tropical disease. Males from sub-populations of the Leishmania-harbouring sandfly, Lutzomyia longipalpis, produce the diterpene sex and aggregation pheromone, sobralene, for which geranylgeranyl diphosphate (GGPP) is the likely isoprenoid precursor.
Charles Ducker, Stanley French, Monika Pathak, Harry Taylor, Adam Sainter, William Askem, Ingrid Dreveny, Antônio Euzébio Goulart Santana, John A. Pickett, Neil J. Oldham   +9 more
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Ecology of Lutzomyia longipalpis and Lutzomyia migonei in an endemic area for visceral leishmaniasis [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, 2014
The main vector for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Brazil is Lutzomyia longipalpis. However, the absence of L. longipalpis in a region of autochthonous VL demonstrates the participation of other species in the transmission of the parasite. Studies conducted in La Banda, Argentina, and São Vicente Férrer, Pernambuco State, Brazil, have correlated the ...
Silva, Rafaella Albuquerque, Santos, Fabricio Kassio Moura, Sousa, Lindemberg Caranha de, Rangel, Elizabeth Ferreira, Bevilaqua, Claudia Maria Leal   +4 more
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SALO, a novel classical pathway complement inhibitor from saliva of the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis. [PDF]

, 2016
Blood-feeding insects inject potent salivary components including complement inhibitors into their host's skin to acquire a blood meal. Sand fly saliva was shown to inhibit the classical pathway of complement; however, the molecular identity of the ...
Abdeladhim, M., Brandt, E.A., Collin, N., Coutinho-Abreu, I.V., Fazito Vale, V., Ferreira Mendes-Sousa, A., Ferreira, V.P., Gontijo, N.F., Horácio Pereira, M., Kamhawi, S., Kotsyfakis, M., Lima, K.F., Meneses, C., Nascimento Araújo, R., Oliveira, F., Pangburn, M.K., Rasouli, M., Ribeiro, J.M., Valenzuela, J.G.   +18 more
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Fauna flebotomínica (Diptera: Psychodidae) em aldeias indígenas do Estado de Mato Grosso Sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in indigenous villages in the State of Mato Grosso

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2009
O estudo foi realizado em 25 aldeias indígenas pertencentes a 13 municípios do Estado de Mato Grosso. Foram identificados 4.424 exemplares de 37 espécies do gênero Lutzomyia e uma espécie do gênero Brumptomyia.
Giovana Belem Moreira Lima Maciel, Nanci Akemi Missawa   +1 more
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Phylogenetic relationships of closely-related phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) of Nyssomyia genus and Lutzomyia subgenus [PDF]

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2020
BACKGROUND The Nyssomyia genus and Lutzomyia subgenus include medical important species that are Latin American leishmaniases vectors. Little is known about the phylogenetic relationships of closely-related species in each of these taxonomic groups that
Sofía Lorián Moya, Angélica Pech-May, María Gabriela Quintana, Mariana Manteca-Acosta, Oscar Daniel Salomón   +4 more
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Development of Lutzomyia intermedia and Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) larvae in different diets [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2001
The objective of this research was to evaluate, in laboratory, the development of Lutzomyia intermedia and Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) larvae, vectors of leishmaniasis in Brazil, in the following diets: industrialized food for rabbits, dogs, hamsters and aquarium fishes, besides liver powder, cooked lettuce, wheat germ ...
WERMELINGER, E. D., ZANUNCIO, J. C.
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Preferência alimentar de Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva, 1912) em área de transmissão de leishmaniose visceral em Mato Grosso Feeding preference of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva, 1912) in transmission area of visceral leishmaniasis in Mato Grosso

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2008
O estudo dos hábitos alimentares e do conteúdo intestinal dos flebotomíneos permite a identificação dos hospedeiros, indicando os potenciais reservatórios das leishmanias.
Nanci Akemi Missawa, Elias Seixas Lorosa, Edelberto Santos Dias   +2 more
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Leishmaniose visceral no Rio de Janeiro: 1 - Flebotomíneos da área de procedência de caso humano autóctone Visceral leishmaniasis in Rio de Janeiro: 1-Phlebotomines from the area of origin of an autochthonous human case

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1981
Foi realizado um inquérito entomológico no período de agosto a dezembor de 1977 na área de procedência de caso autóctone de leishmaniose visceral, encosta do Rio da Prata, bairro de Bangu, Rio de Janeiro.
Miguel Alves de Souza, Paulo Chagastelles Sabroza, Mauro Célio de Almeida Marzochi, Sérgio Gomes Coutinho, Wilson Jacinto Silva de Souza   +4 more
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Carbohydrate digestion in Lutzomyia longipalpis’ larvae (Diptera – Psychodidae)

Journal of Insect Physiology, 2012
Lutzomyia longipalpis is the principal species of phlebotomine incriminated as vector of Leishmania infantum, the etiological agent of visceral leishmaniasis in the Americas. Despite its importance as vector, almost nothing related to the larval biology, especially about its digestive system has been published. The objective of the present study was to
Vale, Vladimir F., Moreira, Bruno H., Moraes, Caroline S., Pereira, Marcos H., Genta, Fernando A., Gontijo, Nelder F.   +5 more
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Sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis in a cutaneous leishmaniasis focus in central Colombia

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1996
Lutzomyia longipalpis, 15 other species of the genus Lutzomyia, and one species of Brumptomyia were collected in an endemic focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in a river canyon 450 m above sea-level, in Rio Claro, Antioquia, Colombia.
Yolanda López, Lisardo Osorio, Gilberto Alvarez, Jaime Rojas, Fernando Jiménez, Carmen Gómez, Cristina Ferro   +6 more
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