A stable focus of canine leishmaniosis in the Bologna Province, Italy

Parassitologia

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 85-88

  Mollicone, E ^a   Battelli, G ^a   Gramiccia, M ^b   Maroli, M ^b   Baldelli, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Canine leishmaniosis; Epidemiology; Italy; P. Perfiliewi; Phlebotomus perniciosus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DOG DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HOST; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; ITALY; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOTOMUS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHODIDAE; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SEROLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; PARASITOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EMILIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; PHLEBOTOMUS PERFILIEWI; PHLEBOTOMUS PERNICIOSUS; PSYCHODIDAE;

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; INSECT VECTORS; ITALY; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; PHLEBOTOMUS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4444356476     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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