Anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis, Kabul, Afghanistan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 727-729

  Reithinger, Richard ^a,b,c   Mohsen, Mohammad ^b   Aadil, Khoksar ^b   Sidiqi, Majeed ^b   Erasmus, Panna ^b   Coleman, Paul G ^a  

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

^b Department of Research and Development   (Netherlands)

^c University Town   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 0038049079     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0906.030026     Document Type: Article

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