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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Infect Genet Evol. 2014 Aug 10;28:691–703. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2014.07.028

Table 5.

Salivary vaccine candidates from different sand flies species.

Sand fly species Vaccine candidate Protect against Nature of protective immune response Model Family of the protein or protein Function
P. papatasi PpSP15 L. major (Valenzuela et al., 2001a; Oliveira et al., 2008) Th1, DTH Mice OBP/SL1 Inhibitor of contact activation
Lu. longipalpis Maxadilan L. major (Morris et al., 2001) Th1, Humoral immune response Mice Maxadilan Vasodilatator
Lu. longipalpis LJM19 L. infantum chagasi, L. braziliensis (Regis et al., 2008 ; Tavares et al., 2011 ) Th1 Hamsters
Lu. longipalpis LJM11 L. major (Xu et al., 2011; Regis et al., 2012a) Th1, DTH Mice Yellow Serotonin binding
Lu. intermedia Linb-11 L. brazileinsis (DeMoura et al., 2013) Th1 Mice
Lu. longipalpis LJM17 L. infantum chagasi (Collin et al., 2009) Th1, DTH, IgG2 Dogs Yellow Serotonin binding
Lu. longipalpis LJL143 L. infantum chagasi (Collin et al., 2009) Th1, DTH, IgG2 Dogs Lufaxin Anti-coagulant

L., Leishmania; Th1, T helper type 1 immune response; DTH, delayed-type hypersensitivity; IgG2, Immunoglobulin G class 2.