Vector salivation and parasite transmission
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
;
82(supl.3): 1-3, 1987.
Article
in English
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| ID: lil-623729
ABSTRACT
Saliva of blood-sucking arthropods contains substances that counteract the host's hemostatic and inflammatory reactions, allowing the arthropod to locate blood and keep it flowing during the blood meal. Parasites may manipulate this system in order to achieve increased transmission, both to vertebrate and to invertebrate hosts. Additionally, salivary pharmacological substances may locally immunosupress the delivery site, allowing initial colonization of the vertebrate host by the parasite.
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Main subject:
Parasitic Diseases
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
Journal subject:
Tropical Medicine
/
Parasitology
Year:
1987
Type:
Article
/
Congress and conference
Affiliation country:
United States
Institution/Affiliation country:
Harvard School of Public Health/US
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