Canine leishmaniasis: Novel strategies for control

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 289-290

  Reithinger, Richard ^a   Davies, Clive R ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; AMPHOTERICIN B; DELTAMETHRIN; DNA VACCINE; INSECTICIDE; LEISHMANIA VACCINE; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DRUG USE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INJECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYRINGE; VECTOR CONTROL; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; PSYCHODIDAE;

EID: 0036630066     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4922(02)02296-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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