Parasitology International 102865-102865 2024年2月 [査読有り]
In visceral and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, humoral immune response can reflect disease severity and parasite burden. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Sri Lanka is caused by a usually visceralizing parasite, Leishmania donovani. We assessed the pa...
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7月 [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...
The American Journal of Case Reports 23 e937869 2022年11月 [査読有り]
BACKGROUND Centipede envenomation is usually mild, but a review of the existing literature revealed a more serious course in a small proportion of patients. In fact, necrotizing soft-tissue infections have been reported following centipede stings ...
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, ...