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Clarissa Teixeira

Researcher at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

Publications -  48
Citations -  1988

Clarissa Teixeira is an academic researcher from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Leishmania & Leishmania braziliensis. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 46 publications receiving 1813 citations. Previous affiliations of Clarissa Teixeira include Federal University of Bahia & National Institutes of Health.

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Immunity to a salivary protein of a sand fly vector protects against the fatal outcome of visceral leishmaniasis in a hamster model.

TL;DR: It is shown that immunity to a defined salivary protein (LJM19) confers powerful protection against the fatal outcome of a parasitic disease, which reinforces the concept of using components of arthropod saliva in vaccine strategies against vector-borne diseases.
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Sand Fly Salivary Proteins Induce Strong Cellular Immunity in a Natural Reservoir of Visceral Leishmaniasis with Adverse Consequences for Leishmania

TL;DR: Certain sand fly salivary proteins are potent immunogens obligatorily co-deposited with Leishmania parasites during transmission and their inclusion in an anti-Leishmania vaccine would exploit anti-saliva immunity following an infective sand fly bite and set the stage for a protective anti- leishmania immune response.
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Chemokines in host–parasite interactions in leishmaniasis

TL;DR: Crucial to the defense against leishmaniasis is the ability of the host to mount a cell-mediated immune response capable of controlling and/or eliminating the parasite.
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The midgut transcriptome of Lutzomyia longipalpis: comparative analysis of cDNA libraries from sugar-fed, blood-fed, post-digested and Leishmania infantum chagasi-infected sand flies

TL;DR: This analysis suggests that Leishmania infantum chagasi alters the expression profile of certain midgut transcripts in the sand fly during blood meal digestion and that this modulation may be relevant for the survival and establishment of the parasite in the gut of the fly.