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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019 Phlebotomine sand flies are insects that are highly relevant in medicine, particularly as the sole proven vectors of leishmaniasis. Accurate identification of sand fly species is an essential prerequisite for eco-epidemiological studies aiming to better ...
Agathe Chavy +9 more
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Sand-flies and Kala-azar [PDF]
Nature, 1927 IN the issue of NATURE dated Mar. 26, p. 460, there is a letter from the Kala-azar Commission of the Royal Society working in north China in which the claim is made that for the first time an infection with kala-azar has been produced by means of the intraperitoneal inoculation of the midgut contents of the genus Phlebotomus into an experimental animal.
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Journal of Entomological and Acarological ResearchSand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) are significant medical vectors of pathogens that cause illness in humans and animals. The most significant of these is the genus Leishmania (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae). Leishmaniasis is an important vector-borne
Raxsina Polseela +3 more
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Enzootic transmission of Leishmania spp. in gallery forests of the Brazilian Cerrado [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia VeterináriaGallery forests harbor mammals and sand flies that may be involved in the transmission of Leishmania spp. parasites. Characterizing the enzootic cycles of Leishmania spp. is essential for understanding its transmission dynamics.
Aline Rapello +10 more
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Sand fly behavior: much more than weak-flying
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2021 BACKGROUND Leishmaniases are diseases transmitted by some species of sand flies and are widely distributed throughout the tropical regions of the planet. Despite the low mobility of these vectors, the geographical distributions of some species are quite
Gabriel Barbosa Tonelli +3 more
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Moth flies and sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Cretaceous Burmese amber
PeerJ, 2015 One new subfamily, four new genera and 10 new species of Psychodidae are described from Burmese amber which significantly increases our knowledge about this group in the Cretaceous. Protopsychodinae n. subfam. probably represents the oldest known ancestor of modern Psychodinae and includes three species within two genera:Datzia setosagen. et sp.
Stebner, Frauke +3 more
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Investigating the role of the Leishmania (Leishmania) major HASP and SHERP genes during metacyclogenesis in the sand fly vectors, Phlebotomus (Phlebotomus) papatasi and Ph. (Ph.) duboscqi [PDF]
, 2013 Leishmania parasites are the causative agents of a diverse spectrum of infectious diseases termed the leishmaniases. These digenetic parasites exist as intracellular, aflagellate amastigotes in a mammalian host and as extracellular flagellated ...
Doehl, Johannes
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Natural infection of the sand fly
Parasites & Vectors, 2010 The natural infection of phlebotomine sand flies by Leishmania parasites was surveyed in a desert area of Pakistan where cutaneous leishmaniasis is endemic.
Iwata Hiroyuki +7 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2022 Background Phlebotomine sand flies are vectors of Leishmania parasites, which are the causative agents of leishmaniasis. Herein, we developed an amplicon-based next-generation sequencing (Amp-NGS) to characterize sand flies and Leishmania parasites ...
Abedelmajeed Nasereddin +7 more
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Chronic Diseases Journal, 2019 BACKGROUND: Phlebotominae sand flies, belonging to Psychodidae family, are very important because some species of them are biological vector of cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis in Iran.
Ahmad Vahabi +6 more
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