INCREASED INTRADERMAL PROBING TIME IN SPOROZOITE-INFECTED MOSQUITOS
INCREASED INTRADERMAL PROBING TIME IN SPOROZOITE-INFECTED MOSQUITOS
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DOI:
10.4269/ajtmh.1984.33.17
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
SPIELMAN, A
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作者:
ROSSIGNOL, PA;RIBEIRO, JMC;SPIELMAN, A
Because malaria sporozoites destroy segments of the salivary glands of vector mosquitoes. The impairment of salivary function was determined. Such pathology would result in a prolonged intradermal probing phase of feeding behavior, because the role of saliva is to help locate blood vessels. Noninfected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes probed for a shorter period than did either sporozoite-infected or saliva-deprived mosquitoes. Salivary apyrase activity is reduced to a 3rd following maturation of sporozoites. Apyrase activity is normally confined to those regions invaded by sporozoites. Sporozoite-infected and noninfected mosquitoes produced equal volumes of saliva. Apparently, sporozoite infection impairs the vector''s ability to locate blood vessels by affecting the quality of salivary product increasing potentially infective host contacts.