Identification of wild-caught phlebotomine sand flies from Crete and Cyprus using DNA barcoding

BACKGROUND: Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) are vectors of Leishmania spp., protozoan parasites responsible for a group of neglected diseases called leishmaniases. Two sand fly genera, Phlebotomus and Sergentomyia, contain species that are present in the Mediterranean islands of Crete...

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Published in:Parasit Vectors
Main Authors: Dokianakis, Emmanouil, Tsirigotakis, Nikolaos, Christodoulou, Vasiliki, Poulakakis, Nikos, Antoniou, Maria
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5816364/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29454363
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2676-0
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