Leishmania and sand flies: Proximity to woodland as a risk factor for infection in a rural focus of visceral leishmaniasis in west central Venezuela

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1785-1791

  Feliciangeli, M Dora ^a   Delgado, Olinda ^b   Suarez, Benny ^a   Bravo, Arturo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Leishmania chagasi infantum; Lutzomyia pseudolongipalpis; Risk factors; Temporal and spatial distribution; Venezuela; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLAGELLATE; FLY; LEISHMANIASIS; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WOODLAND;

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FLAGELLATE; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA SKIN TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUTZOMYIA PSEUDOLONGIPALPIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHODIDAE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SKIN TEST; SPECIES HABITAT; STATISTICAL MODEL; VENEZUELA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHODIDAE; RAIN; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SEASONS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; VENEZUELA;

CURARIGUA; EL BRASILAR; LARA; SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

LUTZOMYIA PSEUDOLONGIPALPIS; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PHLEBOTOMINAE;

EID: 33751365125     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01747.x     Document Type: Article

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