Zoonoses and climate variability: The example of leishmaniasis in southern departments of Colombia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1149, Issue , 2008, Pages 326-330

  Cardenas, Rocio ^a,b,e   Sandoval, Claudia M ^b,c   Rodriguez Morales, Alfonso J ^b   Vivas, Paul ^d  

^a Instituto Departamental de Salud de Norte de Santander   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE PAMPLONA   (Colombia)

^d INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^e Municipio El Hatillo   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Leishmaniasis; Reservoirs; Transmission; Vectors

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COLOMBIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 57849101253     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1428.094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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