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Experimental infection of Lutzomyia longipalpis fed on a patient with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania mexicana amazonensis

L. M. Deane, Elizabeth Ferreira Rangel, M Paes-Oliveira, Gabriel Grimaldi, Hooman Momen, Nataly A. Souza, Eduardo Dias Wermelinger, André F. Barbosa

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The authors were able to infect phlebotomine sandflies on a human case of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis by feeding females of Lutzomyia longipalpis on a patient with a lesion due to Leishmania mexicana amazonensis.

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Key concepts: Leishmania mexicana, Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous leishmaniasis, Leishmania, Biology, Lutzomyia, Skin lesion, Kinetoplastida