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SUBMITTER: Caljon G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1695494 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Infection and immunity 20060905 11
Tsetse flies (Glossina sp.) are the vectors that transmit African trypanosomes, protozoan parasites that cause human sleeping sickness and veterinary infections in the African continent. These blood-feeding dipteran insects deposit saliva at the feeding site that enables the blood-feeding process. Here we demonstrate that tsetse fly saliva also accelerates the onset of a Trypanosoma brucei infection. This effect was associated with a reduced inflammatory reaction at the site of infection initiat ...[more]