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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Plant-feeding phlebotomine sand flies, vectors of leishmaniasis, prefer

Ibrahim Abbasi, Artur Trancoso Lopo de Queiroz, Oscar David Kirstein, Abdelmajeed Nasereddin, Ben Zion Horwitz, Asrat Hailu, Ikram Salah, Tiago Feitosa Mota, Deborah Bittencourt Mothé Fraga, Patricia Sampaio Tavares Veras and 6 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Can floral nectars reduce transmission of Leishmania?PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022
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  5. Circulation aspects of phlebotomines (Diptera:Journal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2025
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  7. Luring the vector: A systematic review of sand fly attractants.Current research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2025
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  17. Towards a Sustainable Vector-Control Strategy in the Post Kala-Azar Elimination Era.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021
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  18. Molecular Tools and Schistosomiasis Transmission Elimination.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 7 institutions in 7 countries.

Ibrahim AbbasiDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Kuvin Centre for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel.
Artur Trancoso Lopo de QueirozInstituto Gonçalo Moniz-Fiocruz Bahia, 40296-710 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Oscar David KirsteinDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Kuvin Centre for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel.
Abdelmajeed NasereddinGenomics Applications Laboratory, Core Research Facility, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel.
Ben Zion HorwitzDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Kuvin Centre for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel.
Asrat HailuCollege of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Ikram SalahMitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel.
Tiago Feitosa MotaInstituto Gonçalo Moniz-Fiocruz Bahia, 40296-710 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Deborah Bittencourt Mothé FragaInstituto Gonçalo Moniz-Fiocruz Bahia, 40296-710 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Patricia Sampaio Tavares VerasInstituto Gonçalo Moniz-Fiocruz Bahia, 40296-710 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
David PocheGenesis Laboratories, Inc., Wellington, CO 80549.
Richard PocheGenesis Laboratories, Inc., Wellington, CO 80549.
Aidyn YeszhanovM. Aikimbayev Kazakh Scientific Center of Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases, A35P0K3 Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Cláudia BrodskynInstituto Gonçalo Moniz-Fiocruz Bahia, 40296-710 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Zaria Torres-PocheGenesis Laboratories, Inc., Wellington, CO 80549.
Alon WarburgDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Kuvin Centre for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel; alonw@ekmd.huji.ac.il.ORCID 0000-0001-7929-3114
Hebrew University of Jerusalem · ILFundação Oswaldo Cruz · BRGenesis Laboratories · USAddis Ababa University · ETBen-Gurion University of the Negev · ILKazakh Research Institute of Plant Protection and Quarantine · KZUniversity of Oslo · NO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Blood-sucking phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) transmit leishmaniasis as well as arboviral diseases and bartonellosis. Sand fly females become infected with

Indexed as

AnimalsBehavior, AnimalCannabisFemaleHerbivoryInsect VectorsLeishmaniaLeishmaniasisMalePsychodidaeSex FactorsCannabis sativaleishmaniasisnext-generation sequencingphlebotomine sand fliesplant feeding

Identifiers

PMID30373823
PMCPMC6243281
OpenAlexW2899346577

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