Aircraft and risk of importing a new vector of visceral leishmaniasis

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1333-1334

  Costa, Carlos H N ^a   de Miranda Santos, Isabel K F ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRETHROID;

AIRCRAFT; ARGENTINA; BRAZIL; DISEASE CARRIER; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LETTER; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PSYCHODIDAE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; TROPIC CLIMATE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

AIRCRAFT; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; HUMANS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; PORTUGAL; PSYCHODIDAE; PYRETHRINS; TEMPERATURE; TRAVEL;

EID: 79959865068     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1707.102002     Document Type: Letter

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