Vector salivation and parasite transmission
Saliva of blood-sucking arthropods contains substances that counteract the host's hemostatic and inflammatory reactions, allowing the arthropod to locate blood and keep it flowing during the blood meal. Parasites may manipulate this system in order to achieve increased transmission, both to vertebrate and to invertebrate hosts. Additionally, salivary pharmacological substances may locally immunosupress the delivery site, allowing initial colonization of the vertebrate host by the parasite.
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Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde
1987
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| Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761987000700003 |
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