Biology of phlebotomine sand flies as vectors of disease agents

PD Ready - Annual review of entomology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Phlebotomines are the sole or principal vectors of Leishmania, Bartonella bacilliformis, and
some arboviruses. The coevolution of sand flies with Leishmania species of mammals and …

Insights into the sand fly saliva: Blood-feeding and immune interactions between sand flies, hosts, and Leishmania

T Lestinova, I Rohousova, M Sima… - PLoS neglected …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Leishmaniases are parasitic diseases present worldwide that are transmitted to
the vertebrate host by the bite of an infected sand fly during a blood feeding. Phlebotomine …

Leishmania treatment and prevention: Natural and synthesized drugs

AA Bekhit, E El-Agroudy, A Helmy, TM Ibrahim… - European journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Leishmaniasis affects over 150 million people all over the world, especially in subtropical
regions. Currently used antileishmanial synthesized drugs are associated with some …

Combining epidemiology with basic biology of sand flies, parasites, and hosts to inform leishmaniasis transmission dynamics and control

O Courtenay, NC Peters, ME Rogers, C Bern - PLoS pathogens, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Quantitation of the nonlinear heterogeneities in Leishmania parasites, sand fly vectors, and
mammalian host relationships provides insights to better understand leishmanial …

[HTML][HTML] An overview on Leishmania vaccines: A narrative review article

H Rezvan, M Moafi - Veterinary research forum, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Leishmaniasis is one of the major health problems and categorized as a class I disease
(emerging and uncontrolled) by World Health Organization (WHO), causing highly …

The Immune Response to Sand Fly Salivary Proteins and Its Influence on Leishmania Immunity

R Gomes, F Oliveira - Frontiers in immunology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease transmitted by bites of phlebotomine sand flies.
During Leishmania transmission, sand fly saliva is co-inoculated with parasites into the skin …

Severity of old world cutaneous leishmaniasis is influenced by previous exposure to sandfly bites in Saudi Arabia

K Mondragon-Shem, WS Al-Salem… - PLoS neglected …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background The sandfly Phlebotomus papatasi is the vector of Leishmania major, the main
causative agent of Old World cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Saudi Arabia. Sandflies inject …

Cytokine saga in visceral leishmaniasis

R Bhor, S Rafati, K Pai - Cytokine, 2021 - Elsevier
In humans, infection with Leishmania manifests into a spectrum of diseases. The
manifestation of the diseases depend on the resultant evasion of the parasite to immune …

Understanding Leishmania parasites through proteomics and implications for the clinic

S Sundar, B Singh - Expert review of proteomics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Leishmania spp. are causative agents of leishmaniasis, a broad-spectrum
neglected vector-borne disease. Genomic and transcriptional studies are not capable of …

Salivary Gland Transcriptomes and Proteomes of Phlebotomus tobbi and Phlebotomus sergenti, Vectors of Leishmaniasis

I Rohoušová, S Subrahmanyam, V Volfová… - PLoS neglected …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Phlebotomus tobbi is a vector of Leishmania infantum, and P. sergenti is a
vector of Leishmania tropica. Le. infantum and Le. tropica typically cause visceral or …