Assessing the effect of zooprophylaxis on zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis transmission: A system dynamics approach

BioSystems

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 253-260

  Kaabi, Belhassen ^a   Ahmed, Sami Ben hadj ^b  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Leishmania; System Dynamics; Zoonotic; Zooprophylaxis

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; FLY; LEISHMANIASIS; POPULATION SIZE; PROTOZOAN; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PSAMMOMYS OBESUS; PSYCHODIDAE; RAT; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST RANGE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HOST SPECIFICITY; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PSYCHODIDAE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84887380212     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: 18728324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2013.10.003     Document Type: Article

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