Table 1.
Lutzomyia longipalpis infected with promastigotes (Pro) or axenic amastigotes (Ama) of Leishmania infantum chagasi*
| Days post-infection | Morphologic forms (%) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amastigote | Procyclic | Nectomonad | Paramastigote | Haptomonad | Metacyclic | |||||||
| Pro | Ama | Pro | Ama | Pro | Ama | Pro | Ama | Pro | Ama | Pro | Ama | |
| 2 | – | 5.9 | 4.7 | 81.7 | 92.2 | 12.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| 3 | – | 0.0 | 5.3 | 2.1 | 91.5 | 96.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| 4 | – | 0.0 | 4.6 | 3.1 | 91.2 | 90.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 6.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| 5 | – | 0.0 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 88.3 | 92.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 3.6 | 4.7 | 3.3 | 0.0 |
| 6 | – | 0.0 | 3.7 | 2.6 | 87.4 | 91.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 2.6 | 5.5 | 6.2 | 0.0 |
| 7 | – | 0.0 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 87.5 | 92.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 5.3 | 7.4 | 0.0 |
| 8 | – | 0.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 80.8 | 90.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 3.9 | 6.9 | 12.7 | 0.0 |
| 9 | – | 0.0 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 83.5 | 93.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 5.4 | 11.9 | 0.2 |
| 10 | – | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 81.3 | 90.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 3.3 | 5.9 | 13.5 | 2.7 |
*
Samples were prepared for morphologic analyses and at least 300 parasites were analyzed. Data represent the geometric mean of flies analyzed from two independent experiments. Data set represents the analysis of approximately 30,000 individual parasites.