Infection prevalence and vector-borne transmission: are vectors always to blame?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 492-496

  Smith, Andrew ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE VECTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARASITIC DISEASES; PREVALENCE;

EID: 54349121254     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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