Article: Data from N.S. Singh et al provide new insights into life sciences.

Article: $5.4 Million Grant to Yale EPH to Study Parasitic Disease Spread ...
M2 Presswire;  January 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Parasitic Disease Spread by Female Sand Flies(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS ... Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH), the co-principal investigator ... With over 400 species of sand flies in the Americas alone and at least ...

Article: Leishmaniasis transmission by sand flies enhanced ...
Drug Week;  September 10, 2004 ;     660 words ... ... Transmission of cutaneous leishmaniasis by sand flies is enhanced by regurgitation of fPPG ... from the United Kingdom and Germany, "Sand flies are the exclusive vectors of the protozoan ... experimental models of infection. In sand flies with mature Leishmania infections the ...

Article: 'Baghdad boil' afflicts troops exposed to sand ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 25, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Baghdad boil' afflicts troops exposed to sand flies in Iraq Left untreated, sores can last ... occurs in hot and tropical countries where sand flies dwell, Hack said. Still, only about ... arrived in Iraq during the peak season for sand flies and were in the field much longer. Many ...

Article: Habitat analysis of North American sand flies near ...
International Journal of Health Geographics;  December 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... including humans, through the bite of female sand flies. The sand fly, therefore, is the ... stimulated interest in the possible role of sand flies in the transmission of disease.[10 ... forests harboring significantly fewer sand flies.[11] In the southwest, geographic ...

Article: The midgut transcriptome of Lutzomyia longipalpis : comparative ...
BMC Genomics;  January 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... which are transmitted by Phlebotomine sand flies. Different forms of disease presentation ... understanding of blood meal processing in sand flies and the differences between visceral ... one library combining the midguts from sand flies allowed to feed on a sucrose solution ...

Article: MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS CONSIDER SOLDIERS, CITIZENS, ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... a disease transmitted by the bites of sand flies that can leave disfiguring scars or ... insect repellents and pesticides that keep sand flies away, some soldiers worry about whether ... military uses to control mosquitoes and sand flies," Macedo said. "We ask the military ...

Article: DNA may reveal a fly's favorite eatery.(research indicates ...
Science News;  June 12, 1999 ;     535 words ... ... Americas and elsewhere, beware the bite of sand flies. These insects, which feast at night ... procure a blood meal from their victim. Sand flies can infect people with the parasites ... laboratory. They now plan to capture sand flies in Peru, isolate mammalian DNA from ...