Effect of eliminating seropositive canines on the transmission of visceral Leishmaniasis in Brazil

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1240-1242

  Dietze, Reynaldo ^b   Barros, Geisa Baptista ^b   Teixeira, Luciléia ^b   Harris, Jason ^b   Michelson, Kelly ^b   Falqueto, Aloísio ^b   Corey, Ralph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; DOG; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030778758     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516096     Document Type: Article

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