Epidemiological surveys confirm an increasing burden of cutaneous leishmaniasis in north-east Brazil

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 488-494

  Brandão Filho, Sinval P ^a   Campbell Lendrum, Diarmid ^b   Brito, Maria E F ^a   Shaw, Jeffrey J ^c   Davies, Clive R ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Epidemiology; Leishmania braziliensis; Lutzomyia whitmani; Pathogenicity; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; MALE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHODIDAE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SKIN TEST; SYMPTOM;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LUTZOMYIA WHITMANI; PROTOZOA; PSYCHODIDAE;

EID: 0032700628     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(99)90346-2     Document Type: Article

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