Leishmaniasis transmission: Distribution and coarse-resolution ecology of two vectors and two parasites in Egypt

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 57-62

  Samy, Abdallah M ^a,b   Campbell, Lindsay P ^a   Townsend Peterson, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Ecological niche modeling; Egypt; Leishmania; Niche similarity; Sandfly; Sinai

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MEDICAL RECORD; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PHLEBOTOMUS; RISK FACTOR; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EGYPT; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIASIS; PHLEBOTOMUS;

EID: 84895757651     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0037-8682-0189-2013     Document Type: Article

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