The sandfly fauna in the visceral-leishmaniasis focus of Gedaref, in the Atbara-River area of eastern Sudan

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 631-636

  Lambert, M ^a   Dereure, J ^a   El Safi, S H ^a   Bucheton, B ^a   Dessein, A ^a   Boni, M ^a   Feugier, E ^a   Dedet, J P ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Parasitologie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FAUNA; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PSYCHODIDAE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUDAN; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; ENTOMOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; PSYCHODIDAE; SEASONS; SUDAN;

ARVICANTHIS; ARVICANTHIS NILOTICUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NEMATODA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS ORIENTALIS; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; PSYCHODIDAE; SERGENTOMYIA;

EID: 0036743332     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349802125001474     Document Type: Article

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