Repeated Sand Fly Bites of Infected BALB/c Mice Enhance the Development of Leishmania Lesions

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fitd.2021.745104" target="_blank" >10.3389/fitd.2021.745104</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Repeated Sand Fly Bites of Infected BALB/c Mice Enhance the Development of Leishmania Lesions

Original language description

Sand fly saliva has considerable immunomodulatory effects on Leishmania infections in mammalian hosts. Studies on several Leishmania - sand fly - host combinations have demonstrated that co-inoculation with Leishmania parasites enhances pathogenicity, while pre-exposure of hosts to sand fly bites provides significant protection against infection. However, the third scenario, the effect of sand fly saliva on parasite development in hosts infected before exposure to sand flies, remains an understudied aspect of Leishmania-host-vector interaction. Here we studied the effect of exposure of L. majorinfected BALB/c mice to repeated sand fly bites. Mice infected intradermally with sand flyderived Leishmania were repeatedly bitten by Phlebotomus duboscqi females every two weeks. The lesion development was recorded weekly for ten weeks post-infection and parasite load and distribution in various organs were tested post mortem using qPCR. Repeated sand fly bites significantly enhanced the development of cutaneous lesions; they developed faster and reached larger size than in unexposed mice. Multiple sand fly bites also increased parasites load in inoculated ears. On the other hand, the distribution of parasites in mice body and their infectiousness to vectors did not differ significantly between groups. Our study provides the first evidence that multiple and repeated exposures of infected BALB/c mice to sand fly bites significantly enhance the progress of local skin infection caused by Leishmania major and increase tissue parasite load, but do not affect the visceralization of parasites. This finding appeals to adequate protection of infected humans from sand fly bites, not only to prevent transmission but also to prevent enlarged lesions.

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10600 - Biological sciences

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Tropical Diseases

ISSN

2673-7515

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2

Issue of the periodical within the volume

October 2021

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

745104

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