Characterization of bacteria expectorated during forced salivation of the Phlebotomus papatasi: A neglected component of sand fly infectious inoculums

• Naseh Maleki-Ravasan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: naseh_maleki@yahoo.com (NM-R), parpparvizi@yahoo.com (PP)

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7209-5908

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• Seyedeh Maryam Ghafari,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Narmin Najafzadeh,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Fateh Karimian,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Fatemeh Darzi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Roshanak Davoudian,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Reza Farshbaf Pourabad,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Ege University, İzmir, Türkiye

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• Parviz Parvizi

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: naseh_maleki@yahoo.com (NM-R), parpparvizi@yahoo.com (PP)

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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