Climate and recruitment limitation of hosts: The dynamics of American cutaneous leishmaniasis seen through semi-mechanistic seasonal models

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 221-234

  Chaves, L F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COSTA RICA; HOST; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARASITE; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHODIDAE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SYMPTOM; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TRANSMISSION;

PHLEBOTOMINAE;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; COSTA RICA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; PSYCHODIDAE; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 65249164001     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485909X398267     Document Type: Article

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