The transmission of suprapylarian leishmania by the bite of experimentally infected sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae).
Lutzomyia furcata transmitted Leishmania chagasi to a hamster 10 days after being experimentally fed on an infected spleen. An individual female Psychodopygus carrerai carrerai that had fed on a hamster lesion caused by Leishmania mexicana amazonensis transmitted this parasite 6 days later to another hamster. Transmission electron microscopy of this fly's head revealed a small number of degenerate promastigotes in the foregut, but only a few were attached.
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Wellcome Parasitology Unit, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Belém, Brasil.
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Shaw
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D000818:Animals; D006224:Cricetinae; D005260:Female; D007893:Leishmania donovani / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D007898:Leishmaniasis, Visceral / Q000635:transmission*; D011576:Psychodidae / Q000469:parasitology*