The burden of visceral leishmaniasis in Italy from 1982 to 2012: A retrospective analysis of the multi-annual epidemic that occurred from 1989 to 2009

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 29, 2013, Pages

  Gramiccia, M ^a   Scalone, A ^a   Di Muccio, T ^a   Orsini, S ^a   Fiorentino, E ^a   Gradoni, L ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 84880577152     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2013.18.29.20535     Document Type: Article

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