Susceptibility to Leishmania major of different populations of Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae) from endemic and non-endemic regions of Egypt

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-64

  Hanafi, H A ^a   El Sawaf, B M ^b   Fryauff, D J ^a,c   Beavers, G M ^a   Tetreault, G E ^a  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^b Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

^c US Nav Med Research Unit No 2   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EGYPT; FEEDING APPARATUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RATE; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOSIS; PHLEBOTOMUS; SUSPENSION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EGYPT; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PHLEBOTOMUS;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; PROTOZOA; PSYCHODIDAE;

EID: 0031973045     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034989860175     Document Type: Article

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