Small mammals as hosts of Leishmania spp.In a highly endemic area for zoonotic leishmaniasis in north-eastern Brazil

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 592-597

  Lima, Bruna S ^a   Dantas Torres, Filipe ^a,b   De Carvalho, Maria R ^a   Marinho Junior, José F ^a   De Almeida, Ericka L ^a   Brito, Maria E F ^a   Gomes, Francisco ^a   Brandão Filho, Sinval P ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eco epidemiology; Leishmania; Reservoir hosts; Transmission; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; INVERSE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIASIS; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; SEROLOGY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SMALL MAMMAL; SPLEEN; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ECO-EPIDEMIOLOGY; LEISHMANIA; RESERVOIR HOSTS; TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; OPOSSUMS; PSYCHODIDAE; RATS; RODENTIA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84889049627     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trt062     Document Type: Article

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