Epidemiology of Andean cutaneous leishmaniasis: Incrimination of Lutzomyia ayacuchensis (Diptera: Psychodidae) as a vector of Leishmania in geographically isolated, upland valleys of Peru

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 607-612

  Caceres, Abraham G ^a   Villaseca, Pablo ^a   Dujardin, Jean Claude ^b   Bañuls, Anne Laure ^c   Inga, Rocio ^d   Lopez, Martin ^d   Arana, Margarita ^d   Le Ray, Dominique ^b   Arevalo, Jorge ^d  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Peru)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; KARYOTYPING; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA PERUVIANA; LUTZOMYIA AYACUCHENSIS; LUTZOMYIA NOGUCHII; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PERU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMASTIGOTE; PSYCHODIDAE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOLOGY;

DIPTERA; INSECTA; LEISHMANIA PERUVIANA; LUTZOMYIA AYACUCHENSIS; LUTZOMYIA NOGUCHII; PROTOZOA; PSYCHODIDAE; UTA; VIANNIA;

EID: 3042670308     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2004.70.607     Document Type: Article

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