Epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis in Atbara River area, eastern Sudan: The outbreak of Barbar El Fugara village (1996-1997)

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 1439-1447

  El Safi, Sayda Hassan ^a   Bucheton, Bruno ^b   Kheir, Musa Mohamed ^a   Abdel, Hassan ^a,b,c   Musa, Aziz ^a   El Obaid, Moawia ^c   Hammad, Awad ^a   Dessein, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b Aix Marseille university   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEZIRA   (Sudan)

Author keywords

DAT; Epidemiology; LST; Sudan; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEST; SUDAN; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SKIN TESTS; SUDAN;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; NASO HEXACANTHUS;

EID: 18744372120     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(02)00026-6     Document Type: Article

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