Seasonal phenology, host-blood feeding preferences and natural Leishmania infection of Phlebotomus perniciosus (Diptera, Psychodidae) in a high-endemic focus of canine leishmaniasis in Rome province, Italy

Acta Tropica

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 158-165

  Rossi, E ^a   Bongiorno, G ^a   Ciolli, E ^b   Di Muccio, T ^a   Scalone, A ^a   Gramiccia, M ^a   Gradoni, L ^a   Maroli, M ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b Veterinary Clinic   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood meal analysis; Canine leishmaniasis; Italy; Leishmania; Nested PCR; Phlebotomine sandflies; Phlebotomus perniciosus; Rome province

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEMOPHAGY; LEISHMANIASIS; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; FLY; ITALY; LEISHMANIASIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHENOLOGY; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHLEBOTOMUS MASCITTII; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; PHLEBOTOMUS PERNICIOSUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROMASTIGOTE; PSYCHODIDAE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SERGENTOMYIA MINUTA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; PHLEBOTOMUS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHODIDAE; ROME; SEASONS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAZIO; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AVES; CANIS FAMILIARIS; DIPTERA; OVIS; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS MASCITTII; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; PHLEBOTOMUS PERNICIOSUS; PSYCHODIDAE; SERGENTOMYIA; SERGENTOMYIA MINUTA;

EID: 38549159478     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.10.005     Document Type: Article

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