Environmental change and the dynamics of parasitic diseases in the Amazon

Acta Tropica

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 33-41

  Confalonieri, Ulisses E C ^a   Margonari, Carina ^a   Quintão, Ana Flávia ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Superintendência de Educação e Pesquisa em Saúde Coordenação de Promoção   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Climate change; Environment; Forests; Land use; Parasitic diseases

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LAND USE CHANGE; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA; PARASITIC DISEASE;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BAT; BRAZIL; CATTLE FARMING; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FILARIASIS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LAND USE; LOGGING; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MINING; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POVERTY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

AMAZONIA;

BOS;

AMAZON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; FORESTS; LAND USE; PARASITIC DISEASES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; PARASITIC DISEASES; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84888206457     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.09.013     Document Type: Article

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