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Characterization of Phlebotomus papatasi peritrophins, and the role of PpPer1 in Leishmania major survival in its natural vector

Coutinho-Abreu, Iliano V.; Sharma, Narinder K.; Robles-Murguia, Maricela; Ramalho-Ortigao, Marcelo (2013)

The peritrophic matrix (PM) plays a key role in compartmentalization of the blood meal and as barrier to pathogens in many disease vectors. To establish an infection in sand flies, Leishmania must escape from the endoperitrophic ...
First report of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Kansas and Missouri, and a PCR method to distinguish Lutzomyia shannoni from Lutzomyia vexator

Weng, Ju-Lin; Young, Samatha L.; Gordon, David M.; Claborn, David; Petersen, Christine; Ramalho-Ortigao, Marcelo (2012)

Sand flies Lutzomyia (Psathyromyia) shannoni (Dyar) and Lu. (Helcocyrtomyia) vexator (Coquillet) were collected for the first time in southwest Missouri and southeast Kansas, expanding the known range of these species in ...
Leishmaniasis: Middle East and North Africa research and development priorities

McDowell, Mary Ann; Rafati, Sima; Ramalho-Ortigao, Marcelo; Salah, Afif Ben (2011)
Significance of bacteria in oviposition and larval development of the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis

Peterkova-Koci, Kamila; Robles-Murguia, Maricela; Ramalho-Ortigao, Marcelo; Zurek, Ludek (2012)

Background : Microbial ecology of phlebotomine sand flies is not well understood although bacteria likely play an important role in the sand fly biology and vector capacity for Leishmania parasites. In this study, we ...

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