Environmental factors associated with American cutaneous leishmaniasis in a new Andean focus in Colombia

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1309-1317

  Ocampo, C B ^a   Ferro, M C ^b   Cadena, H ^a,e   Gongora, R ^a   Perez M ^a   Valderrama Ardila, C H ^c   Quinnell, R J ^d   Alexander, N ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD ICESI   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e Program for study and Control of Tropical Disease   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Colombia; Ecology; Leishmaniasis; Lutzomyia; Reservoirs; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

COFFEE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLAGELLATE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LEISHMANIASIS; MAMMAL; RISK FACTOR; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC SPECIES; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INCIDENCE; LEISHMANIA; LUTZOMYIA; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; PASTURE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; VEGETATION;

COLOMBIA; COLOMBIE; ÉCOLOGIE; ECOLOGÍA; ECOLOGY; FACTEURS DE RISQUE; FACTORES DE RIESGO; LEISHMANIASIS; LEISHMANIOSE; LUTZOMYIA; RÉSERVOIRS; RESERVOIRS; RESERVORIOS; RISK FACTORS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COFFEA; COLOMBIA; DISEASE VECTORS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; HOUSING; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MAMMALS; POACEAE; PSYCHODIDAE; TREES;

COLOMBIA;

LUTZOMYIA LONGIFLOCOSA; MAMMALIA; VIANNIA;

EID: 84866326776     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2012.03065.x     Document Type: Article

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