Fig. 1From: Leishmania mortality in sand fly blood meal is not species-specific and does not result from direct effect of proteinasesDifferent L. donovani stages incubated with sand fly midguts dissected at 24Â h post-blood meal. Leishmania donovani amastigotes (0Â h AMA), parasites within amastigote-promastigote transition (5Â h AMA/PROMA) and promastigotes (24Â h PROMA) were incubated in a microtiter plate for 2Â h with saline or midguts of P. argentipes, P. orientalis, P. papatasi and S. schwetzi dissected at 24Â h post-blood meal. As a positive control, parasites killed by 1% formaldehyde and permeabilised by 0.5% Triton X-100 were usedBack to article page