Article
Identification of phlebotomine sand fly blood meals by real-time PCR
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SALES, K. G. DA S. et al. Identification of phlebotomine sand fly blood meals by real-time PCR. Parasites & Vectors, v. 8, p. 230, 16 abr. 2015.
1756-3305
10.1186/s13071-015-0840-3
Autor
Sales, Kamila Gaudêncio da Silva
Costa, Pietra Lemos
de Morais, Rayana Carla Silva
Otranto, Domenico
Brandão-Filho, Sinval Pinto
Cavalcanti, Milena de Paiva
Dantas-Torres, Filipe
Resumen
Phlebotomine sand flies are blood-feeding insects of great medical and veterinary significance acting as vectors of Leishmania parasites. Studying the blood-feeding pattern of these insects may help in the understanding of their interactions with potential reservoir hosts of Leishmania parasites. In this study, we developed real time PCR assays for the identification of sand fly blood meal.