Leishmaniasis: Current situation and new perspectives

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 305-318

  Desjeux, P ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Burden; Cutaneous; Leishmaniasis; Public health; Research; Risk factors; Tools for control; Visceral

Indexed keywords

ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; INSECTICIDE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEFORESTATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LEISHMANIASIS; MALNUTRITION; MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEPAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AMERICA; URBANIZATION; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; DIPTERA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; PREVALENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 3042555141     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2004.03.004     Document Type: Article

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