A study of blood-feeding female sand flies has shown how successive blood meals amplify Leishmania infections in the vector’s gut and enhance transmission of the tropical disease leishmaniasis.
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Bates, P.A. Revising Leishmania’s life cycle. Nat Microbiol 3, 529–530 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-018-0154-2
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