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TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhanced sandfly attraction to Leishmania-infected hosts
AU - O'Shea, B.
AU - Rebollar-Tellez, E.
AU - Ward, R. D.
AU - Hamilton, J. G.C.
AU - El Naiem, D.
AU - Polwart, A.
PY - 2002/1/1
Y1 - 2002/1/1
N2 - We report that hamsters infected with Leishmania infantum are more attractive to female sandflies in bioassays. Entrained odours from infected animals were shown by gas chromatography to contain peaks absent from uninfected individuals. Implications of enhanced transmission, potential for developing novel diagnoses and the significance to epidemiological models are discussed.
AB - We report that hamsters infected with Leishmania infantum are more attractive to female sandflies in bioassays. Entrained odours from infected animals were shown by gas chromatography to contain peaks absent from uninfected individuals. Implications of enhanced transmission, potential for developing novel diagnoses and the significance to epidemiological models are discussed.
KW - Experimental infections
KW - Hamsters
KW - Host odour attraction
KW - Leishmania infantum
KW - Lutzomyia longipalpis
KW - Sandflies
U2 - 10.1016/S0035-9203(02)90273-7
DO - 10.1016/S0035-9203(02)90273-7
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 12055795
AN - SCOPUS:0036328811
VL - 96
SP - 117
EP - 118
JO - Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
JF - Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
SN - 0035-9203
IS - 2
ER -