Research
Chicken blood provides a suitable meal for the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis and does not inhibit Leishmania development in the gut
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* Corresponding author: Rod J Dillon r.j.dillon@liv.ac.uk
1 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, L3 5QA, UK
2 Departamento de Parasitologia e Microbiologia, CCS, Universidade Federal do Piauí, Teresina, Piauí, Brazil
3 Biomedical and Life Sciences, School of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, UK
4 Current address: Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL
Parasites & Vectors 2010, 3:3 doi:10.1186/1756-3305-3-3
Published: 11 January 2010Additional files
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Table A. Analysis of chicken, rabbit, human and dog blood used in the experiments.
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Figure A. Longevity of female sand flies after meal of 70% sucrose, chicken or rabbit blood.
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