Breeding sites of Phlebotomus sergenti, the sand fly vector of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Judean desert

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Moncaz, Aviad ^a   Faiman, Roy ^a   Kirstein, Oscar ^a   Warburg, Alon ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BED NET; BREEDING; CAVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HABITAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHLEBOTOMUS SERGENTI; RURAL POPULATION; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; ANIMAL; DESERT CLIMATE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYRAX; ISRAEL; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CAVES; DESERT CLIMATE; DISEASE VECTORS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HYRAXES; ISRAEL; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; PHLEBOTOMUS;

EID: 84864613286     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001725     Document Type: Article

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