Leishmania tropica in the black rat (Rattus rattus): persistence and transmission from asymptomatic host to sand fly vector Phlebotomus sergenti

Abstract

Black rats (Rattus rattus) receiving Leishmania tropica injected intradermally into the ear were studied for the persistence of parasites and infectivity to natural sand fly vector.

Keywords

• svobodová Kulíková cutaneous leishmaniasis
• Rattus
• transmission
• epidemiology
• quantitative PCR