A canine leishmaniasis pilot survey in an emerging focus of visceral leishmaniasis: Posadas (Misiones, Argentina)

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Cruz, Israel ^a   Acosta, Lucrecia ^b   Gutiérrez, Mariana N ^c,d   Nieto, Javier ^a   Cañavate, Carmen ^a   Deschutter, Jorge ^c,d   Bornay Llinares, Fernando J ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MISIONES   (Argentina)

^d Ministerio de Salud Pública de Misiones ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; FEMALE; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LUTZOMYIA; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE VECTOR; PILOT STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMPTOM; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; DOG DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 78649513975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-342     Document Type: Article

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