Table 1.

The average amount of PSG recovered from sand flies used in this study

Sand fly species	Yield of PSG recovered from late-stage sand fly infections (average ± s.d. μg/fly total protein)
	L. major	L. tropica
P. papatasi	0.32 ± 0.13	nd: incompatible
P. duboscqi	0.502 ± 0.11	nd: incompatible
P. arabicus	nd: incompatible	0.36 ± 0.22
Lu. longipalpis	0.56 ± 0.29	0.38 ± 0.25

P. papatasi and P. duboscqi were infected with L. major and PSG extracted from day 12–13 p.i. P. arabicus was infected with L. tropica and PSG was extracted 12–13 p.i. Lu. longipalpis was infected with L. major and L. tropica and the PSG extracted 8 days p.i. For reference, Lu. longipalpis infected with L. mexicana yielded an average 0.88 ± 0.14 µg protein per infected fly at 8–9 days p.i. nd, not done.