Evaluating the impact of nitisinone at mosquito-lethal doses on Lutzomyia longipalpis

Laure Augendre; Lucas Alexandre Farias de Souza; Magda Clara Vieira da Costa Ribeiro; Jérôme Depaquit; Jean-Philippe Martinet; Jorian Prudhomme

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0013871

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Evaluating the impact of nitisinone at mosquito-lethal doses on Lutzomyia longipalpis

Laure Augendre ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: laure.augendre@univ-reims.fr (LA); jdepaquit@chu-reims.fr (JD)

Affiliation UR ESCAPE Epidemiosurveillance and circulation of parasites in the environment, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Faculty of Pharmacy, Reims, France

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6271-1508

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Lucas Alexandre Farias de Souza,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Insects Vectors and Parasites Laboratory, Department of Basic Pathology and Postgraduate program in Microbiology, Parasitology and Pathology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
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Magda Clara Vieira da Costa Ribeiro,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Insects Vectors and Parasites Laboratory, Department of Basic Pathology and Postgraduate program in Microbiology, Parasitology and Pathology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
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Jérôme Depaquit ,

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: laure.augendre@univ-reims.fr (LA); jdepaquit@chu-reims.fr (JD)

Affiliations UR ESCAPE Epidemiosurveillance and circulation of parasites in the environment, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Faculty of Pharmacy, Reims, France, Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire, Pôle de Biologie Territoriale, Reims, France
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Jean-Philippe Martinet ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean-Philippe Martinet, Jorian Prudhomme

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UR ESCAPE Epidemiosurveillance and circulation of parasites in the environment, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Faculty of Pharmacy, Reims, France
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Jorian Prudhomme

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean-Philippe Martinet, Jorian Prudhomme

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UR ESCAPE Epidemiosurveillance and circulation of parasites in the environment, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Faculty of Pharmacy, Reims, France
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Evaluating the impact of nitisinone at mosquito-lethal doses on Lutzomyia longipalpis

Laure Augendre,
Lucas Alexandre Farias de Souza,
Magda Clara Vieira da Costa Ribeiro,
Jérôme Depaquit,
Jean-Philippe Martinet,
Jorian Prudhomme

Published: January 12, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0013871

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