The susceptibility of wild caught sand flies to infection by a subspeciesof Leishmania mexicana isolated from proechimys iheringi denigratus (Rodentia, echimyidae)

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Air C. Barretto¹  Julio A. Vexenat¹  Norman E. Peterson¹ 

关键词: experimental infection;    wild sand flies;    Leishmania mexicana;    Proechimys;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0074-02761986000200015

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Several species of wild caught sand flies were collected in the same site where a subspecies of leishmania mexicana was isolated from the rodent Proechimys iheringi denigratus. The absence of natural infection in these sand flies permitted us to test, with relative assurance, the susceptibility of wild caught females to infection by this parasite. the success obtained in these experimental infections suggest that one or more of the sand fly species encountered in high numbers in the same site where the infected rodents were captured may be the vector(s) of this subspecies of l. mexicana.

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