Figure 3

L. longipalpis SGS favors L. infantum survival inside neutrophils and monocytes. C57BL/6 mice were inoculated with L. infantum and/or SGS. (A) Illustration of peritoneal infected neutrophil (upper) and macrophage (bottom) stained with Diff-Quick after 1 h of inoculation. (B) Viable parasites counting recovered by total infected peritoneal cells. The data are the means and SEM from an experiment representative of three independent experiments. n = 5 per group. (*, p < 0.05 and Mann–Whitney test, two-tailed).