TY - GEN AU - Dominguez-Rodriguez, Mercedes AU - ToraƱo, Alfredo PY - 1999 SN - 0022-1007 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/7474 AB - To mimic the sandfly pool feeding process and characterize the cellular and biochemical events that occur during the early stages of promastigote-host interaction, we developed an ex vivo model of human blood infection with Leishmania promastigotes.... LA - eng PB - Rockefeller University Press KW - Leishmania KW - Infection KW - Immune adherence KW - Natural antibodies KW - Complement TI - Immune adherence-mediated opsonophagocytosis: the mechanism of Leishmania infection TY - research article ER -