Are New World leishmaniases becoming anthroponoses?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1235-1241

  Rotureau, Brice ^a  

^a Laboratoire Hospitalo Universitaire de Parasitologie et Mycologie Medicale Cayenne   (French Guiana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DISEASE CARRIER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; DIPTERA; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 33748071483     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.02.056     Document Type: Article

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