<? xm-replace_text {Heading}?> Abstract The most important parasitic diseases, malaria,
leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis, and schistosomiasis, are a great burden to mankind …

Phlebotomus papatasi is the vector of Leishmania major, causing cutaneous leishmaniasis
in the Old World. We investigated whether P. papatasi immunity genes were expressed …

Introduction Sand flies (Diptera: Phlebotominae) belonging to the Lutzomyia genus transmit
Leishmania infantum parasites. To understand the complex interaction between the vector …

Background In sandflies, the blood meal is responsible for the induction of several
physiologic processes that culminate in egg development and maturation. During blood …

Background The leishmaniases are important neglected diseases caused by Leishmania
spp. which are transmitted by sand flies, Lutzomyia longipalpis being the main vector of …

The increasing rates of resistance among bacteria and to a lesser extent fungi have resulted
in an urgent need to find new molecules that hold therapeutic promise against multidrug …

Social bees and other insects are frequently parasitized by a large range of different
microorganisms. Among these is Crithidia bombi (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae), a …

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), was characterized as a pandemic by the World Health …

An expressed sequence tag library has been generated from a sand fly vector of visceral
leishmaniasis, Lutzomyia longipalpis. A normalized cDNA library was constructed from …

Recent ecological studies in invertebrates show that the outcome of an infection is
dependent on the specific pairing of host and parasite. Such specificity contrasts the long …