Leishmaniasis in chaparé, Bolivia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 678-680

  Rojas, Ernesto ^a   Parrado, Rudy ^a   Delgado, Raúl ^a   Reithinger, Richard ^b,c   Garcia, Ana L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMÓN   (Bolivia)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Centro Universitario de Medicina Tropical   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEGLUMINE ANTIMONATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BOLIVIA; CHILD; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BOLIVIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65349171012     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1504.081257     Document Type: Letter

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