Pellagra and the Sand-Fly, II

The Vasoactive Peptide Maxadilan from Sand Fly

The Dengue-Sand-Fly Fever Problem

have been described; other writers apply the name of the place in which the outbreak has been seen and so suggest that the disease is peculiar to that locality. The claim for the discovery of a new disease would, in most cases, have been recognised to be unjustified if the authors had been aware of the following facts in connection with the fevers of the dengue group I. Fevers of the dengue-san...

Sand fly saliva: toward a vaccine against leishmaniases

Leishmaniases are a group of sand fly-borne diseases caused by protozoan parasites from species of Leishmania genus. These diseases are reported in about 100 countries with a prevalence of 12 million people infected and incidence of 2 million people per year, putting approximately 350 million people at risk of the infections. Leishmaniases are endemic and are considered as important public heal...

Sexing sand fly pupae (Diptera: psychodidade: phlebotominae).

We describe a technique to separate male and female pupae of sand flies. This has reduced the labour to separate flies after emergence and also allows the isolation of unmated adults for behavioural and physiological studies.

Sand fly saliva & host immune response