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Skin parasite landscape determines host infectiousness in visceral leishmaniasis
- Source :
- Nature Communications, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Nature Portfolio, 2017.
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Abstract
- Parasitemia has been considered the main determinant of visceral leishmaniasis transmission. By combining imaging, qPCR and experimental xenodiagnoses with mathematical models, Doehl et al. argue that the patchy landscape of parasites in the skin is necessary to explain infectiousness.
- Subjects :
- Science
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20411723 and 98016881
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Nature Communications
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.3a887a193dae46a98016881baf0ef70e
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00103-8