Ahmed Tabbabi   Daiki Mizushima   Daisuke S Yamamoto   Hirotomo Kato   
Parasites & vectors 16(1) 310-310 2023年8月 [査読有り]
BACKGROUND: Blood-sucking phlebotomine sand flies are vectors of the protozoan parasites Leishmania spp. Although the intestinal microbiota is involved in a wide range of biological and physiological processes and has the potential to alter vector...
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology 13 1162918-1162918 2023年 [査読有り]
A rare sugar, allose, was reported to inhibit the development of Plasmodium parasites in Anopheles mosquitoes; however, the mechanism remains unknown. The present study addressed the inhibitory mechanism of allose on the development of the Plasmod...
Transcriptome analysis of the salivary gland cDNA library from a phlebotomine sand fly, Lutzomyia ayacuchensis, identified a transcript coding for the PpSP15/SL1 family protein as the second most abundant salivary component. In the present study, ...
Ahmed Tabbabi   Daiki Mizushima   Daisuke S. Yamamoto   Hirotomo Kato   
Parasitologia 2(2) 71-87 2022年4月 [査読有り]
Sand flies are a significant public health concern in many parts of the world where they are known to transmit agents of several zoonotic diseases to humans, such as leishmaniasis. Vector control remains a key component of many anti-leishmaniasis ...