VECTOR COMPATIBILITY OF PHLEBOTOMUS-PAPATASI DEPENDENT ON DIFFERENTIALLY INDUCED DIGESTION

  • 1 January 1983
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 40  (1) , 65-70
Abstract
Infection with L. leishmania tropica, a strain specific to the sandfly P. papatasi, was inhibited in sandflies fed on turkey blood. Reduction of the parasite number was correlated with the digestive process. A relatively high DNase level was induced in the gut of the sandfly by the nucleated turkey erythrocytes. This is the first record of vector-pathogen incompatibility, thus induced, and of differentially triggered digestive processes.

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