Plasmodium Infection-Induced Changes in Salivary Gland Proteins of Malaria Vector Anopheles stephensi (Diptera: Culicidae)

proteins decreased in the salivary glands by about one-third in females that had consumed infected or uninfected blood meal on day 9 (oocysts stage) as compared to nonfeeding females. However, on day 15, in the salivary glands invaded by sporozoites, the amount of proteins obtained from infected females was approximately 26% lower than that obtained from uninfected females. A similar reduction was also observed in aged (20 days PBF)