Vectors and reservoirs of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Marvdasht district, southern Islamic Republic of Iran

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 686-693

  Rassi, Yava ^a   Gassemi, M M ^a   Javadian, E ^a   Rafizadeh, S ^b   Motazedian, H ^a   Vatandoost, H ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL EDUCATION   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TRAPPING; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICETULUS MIGRATORIUS; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MALE; MERIONES LIBYCUS; MICROTUS ARVALIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHODIDAE; RODENT; RODENT DISEASE; RURAL AREA; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; HUMANS; IRAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PSYCHODIDAE; RISK FACTORS; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ZOONOSES;

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