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From: Chicken blood provides a suitable meal for the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis and does not inhibit Leishmania development in the gut

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Haemoglobin and protein content of whole blood and midguts of blood fed sand flies. (A) Haemoglobin content of dog (n = 3), human (n = 5), rabbit (n = 14) and chicken (n = 6) blood. (B) Protein content of dog (n = 3), human (n = 4), rabbit (n = 8) and chicken (n = 6) blood. (C) Haemoglobin content of midgut lysates of Lu. longipalpis fed on dog (n = 80), human (n = 95), rabbit (n = 67) and chicken (n = 24) blood. Midguts were dissected 4 hours after bloodfeed. (D) Total protein content of midgut lysates of Lu. longipalpis fed on dog (n = 80), human (n = 95) rabbit (n = 48) and chicken blood (n = 24). Bars with different letters represent statistical significance at P ≤ 0.001 between blood sources, (U Mann-Whitney).

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