Professor Paul Bates

Associate Dean for Research

Publications

Rogers, M.E., Kropf, P., Choi, B.-S., Dillon, R.J., Podinovsaia, M., Bates, P.A. and Müller, I. (2009). Proteophosphoglycans regurgitated by Leishmania-infected sand flies target the L-arginine metabolism of host macrophages to promote parasite survival. PLoS Pathogens 5(8), e1000555.

Sant'Anna, M.R.V., Jones, N.G., Hindley, J.A., Mendes-Sousa, A.F., Dillon, R.J., Cavalcante, R.R., Alexander, J.B. and Bates, P.A. (2008). Blood meal identification and parasite detection in laboratory-fed and field-captured Lutzomyia longipalpis by PCR using FTA databasing paper. Acta Tropica 107, 230-237.

Rogers ME, Hajmová M, Joshi MB, Sadlova J, Dwyer DM, Volf P and Bates PA (2008). Leishmania chitinase facilitates colonization of sand fly vectors and enhances transmission to mice. Cellular Microbiology 10: 1363-1372.

Ranasinghe S, Rogers ME, Hamilton JGC, Bates PA and Maingon RDC (2008). A real time PCR assay to estimate Leishmania chagasi load in its natural sand fly vector Lutzomyia longipalpis. Transactions of the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 102: 875-882.

Sant'Anna MRV, Alexander JB, Bates PA and Dillon RJ (2008). Gene silencing in phlebotomine sand flies: xanthine dehydrogenase knock down by dsRNA micro-injections. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 38: 652-660.

Bates PA (2008). Leishmania sand fly interaction: progress and challenges. Current Opinion in Microbiology 11: 340-344.

Siriwardana HVYD, Noyes HA, Beeching NJ, Chance ML, Karunaweera ND and Bates PA (2007). Leishmania donovani is the agent of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka. Emerging Infectious Diseases 13: 476-478.

Rogers ME and Bates PA (2007). Leishmania manipulation of sand fly feeding behavior results in enhanced transmission. PLoS Pathogens 3: 818-825.

Jariyapan N, Choochote W, Jitpakdi A, Harnnoi T, Siriyasatein P, Wilkinson MC and Bates PA (2007). Salivary gland proteins of the human malaria vector, Anopheles Dirus B (Diptera: Culicidae). Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo 49: 5-10.

Bates PA (2007). Transmission of Leishmania metacyclic promastigotes by phlebotomine sand flies. International Journal for Parasitology 37, 1097-1106.

Dillon RJ, Ivens AC, Churcher C, Holroyd N, Quail MA, Rogers ME, Soares MB, Bonaldo MF, Casavant TL, Lehane MJ and Bates PA (2006). Analysis of expressed sequence tags from Lutzomyia longipalpis sand flies infected with Leishmania sp. and its contribution towards understanding of the insect vector-parasite relationship. Genomics 88: 831-840.

Rogers ME, Sizova OV, Ferguson MAJ, Nikolaev AV and Bates PA (2006). Synthetic glycovaccine protects against the bite of Leishmania-infected sand flies. Journal of Infectious Diseases 194: 512-518.

Al-Mohammed HI, Chance ML and Bates PA (2005). Production and characterisation of stable amphotericin-resistant amastigotes and promastigotes of Leishmania mexicana. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 49: 3274-3280.

Joshi MB, Rogers ME, Shakarian AM, Yamage M, Al-Harthi SA, Bates PA and Dwyer DM (2005). Molecular characterization, expression and in vivo analysis of LmexCht1: the chitinase of the human pathogen Leishmania mexicana. Journal of Biological Chemistry 280: 3847-3861.

Jamjoom MB, Ashford RW, Bates PA, Chance ML, Kemp SJ, Watts P and Noyes HA (2004). Leishmania donovani is the only cause of visceral leishmaniasis in East Africa; previous descriptions of L. infantum and L. archibaldi from this region are a consequence of convergent evolution in the isoenzyme data. Parasitology 129: 399-409.

Rogers ME, Ilg T, Nikolaev AV, Ferguson MAJ and Bates PA (2004). Transmission of cutaneous leishmaniasis by sand flies is enhanced by regurgitation of fPPG. Nature 430: 463-467.