TWiP 96: Salivary pharmacopeia
- October 3, 2015
- Tagged as: Ankylostoma braziliense, Belize, cutaneous, cutaneous larva migrans, foxp3, IL10, immune response, leishmania, leishmaniasis, parasite, parasitism, saliva, sandfly, Th1, Th2, Treg, vector
The TWiPanosomes solve the case about the Young Woman who Went to Belize, and relate how sandfly saliva skews the immune response and increases risk of cutaneous leishmaniasis.
