Calpains are a family of proteases that were scientifically recognized earlier than
proteasomes and caspases, but remain enigmatic. However, they are known to participate in …

Transmission of trypanosomatids to their mammalian hosts requires a complex series of
developmental transitions in their insect vectors, including stable attachment to an insect …

This review focusses on the interactions between the etiologic agent of Chagas disease,
Trypanosoma cruzi, and its triatomine vector. The flagellate mainly colonizes the intestinal …

Tsetse-transmitted African trypanosomes must develop into mammalian-infectious
metacyclic cells in the fly's salivary glands (SGs) before transmission to a new host. The …

Chagas disease is a neglected infectious disease caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma
cruzi, primarily transmitted by triatomine vectors, and it threatens approximately seventy-five …

Triatomines are hematophagous insects that feed on the blood of vertebrates from different
taxa, but can occasionally also take fluids from invertebrate hosts, including other insects …

In this book chapter, we discuss the interactions between triatomines, two heteroxenous
trypanosomatids—Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas disease, and …

The potato psyllid (PoP) Bactericera cockerelli (Sulc) and Asian citrus psyllid (ACP)
Diaphorina citri Kuwayama are the insect vectors of the fastidious plant pathogen …

Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of the American Trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease, and
Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, the agents of …

Background Human cutaneous leishmaniasis is caused by distinct species, including
Leishmania amazonensis. Treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis is far from satisfactory due …