Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Leishmania mexicana Infections in a Population of Neotoma micropus

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 171-180

  Raymond, Russell W ^a   McHugh, Chad P ^b   Witt, Loren R ^a   Kerr, Sara F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE INCARNATE WORD   (United States)

^b USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecology; Leishmania mexicana; Mark release recapture; Neotoma micropus; Prevalence; Texas; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOST; INCIDENCE; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS; MALE; NEOTOMA MICROPUS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RAT; RODENT; SCREENING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SIGMODONTINAE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; MICROPUS; NEOTOMA; NEOTOMA MICROPUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SIGMODONTINAE; TEXAS;

EID: 0037928914     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762003000200002     Document Type: Article

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