Proteophosophoglycans regurgitated by Leishmania-infected sand flies target the L-arginine metabolism of host macrophages to promote parasite survival.

All natural Leishmania infections start in the skin; however, little is known of the contribution made by the sand fly vector to the earliest events in mammalian infection, especially in inflamed skin that can rapidly kill invading parasites. During transmission sand flies regurgitate a proteophosph...

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Autores principales: Matthew Rogers, Pascale Kropf, Beak-San Choi, Rod Dillon, Maria Podinovskaia, Paul Bates, Ingrid Müller
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Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/8c2d52a648304c6d9bc90b4ccb6338b2
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