Shotgun Metagenomic Profiling of Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotomine) in Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Endemic Foci of Iraq: Microbiota, Resistome, and Virulome.
This study aims to develop a regional baseline for future individual-level and comparative studies of microbial ecology and symbiont-based vector control. Phlebotomus papatasi is a major vector of Leishmania major and an important component of the transmission cycle of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) in Iraq, al...