Leishmania Manipulation of Sand Fly Feeding Behavior Results in Enhanced Transmission

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About the Authors

Matthew E Rogers

¤ Current address: Imperial College London, Department of Immunology, London, United Kingdom

Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Paul A Bates

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: pbates@liverpool.ac.uk

Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

MER and PAB conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, and wrote the paper. MER performed the experiments.

Parasitic diseases
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Sand flies
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Leishmania
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Amastigotes
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Blood
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Promastigotes
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Vector-borne diseases
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Leishmania infantum
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