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An insight into immunogenic salivary proteins of Anopheles gambiae in African children
5 Jun 2007
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BACKGROUND: During blood feeding, the mosquito injects saliva into the vertebrate host. This saliva contains bioactive components which may play a role in pathogen transmission and in host-vector relationships by inducing an immune response in the vertebrate host. The evaluation of human immune responses to arthropod bites might also represent a research direction for assessing individual exposure to the bite of...
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