Environmental risk factors for the incidence of American cutaneous leishmaniasis in a sub-andean zone of Colombia (Chaparral, Tolima)

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 243-250

  Valderrama Ardila, Carlos ^a   Alexander, Neal ^b   Ferro, Cristina ^c   Cadena, Horacio ^b   Marín, Dairo ^b   Holford, Theodore R ^d   Munstermann, Leonard E ^d   Ocampo, Clara B ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ICESI   (Colombia)

^b CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ENTRENAMIENTO E INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS CIDEIM   (Colombia)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COLOMBIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST; HUMAN; LAND USE; LEISHMANIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RISK FACTOR; TEMPERATURE; ALTITUDE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIC; INCIDENCE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TIME;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE; COLOMBIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77449147584     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0218     Document Type: Article

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