Distinct transmission cycles of Leishmania tropica in 2 adjacent foci, northern Israel

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1860-1868

  Svobodova, Milena ^a   Votypka, Jan ^a   Peckova, Jitka ^a   Dvorak, Vít ^a   Nasereddin, Abedelmajeed ^b   Baneth, Gad ^b   Sztern, Julia ^b   Kravchenko, Vasiliy ^b   Orr, Amnon ^c   Meir, David ^d   Schnur, Lionel F ^b   Volf, Petr ^a   Warburg, Alon ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c Tiberias Veterinary Center   (Israel)

^d Nat and Natl Parks Protect Auth   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYRAX; ISRAEL; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MIDGUT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOSIS; PHLEBOTOMUS; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; RAT; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 33845423947     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1212.060497     Document Type: Article

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