Irrigation in the arid regions of Tunisia impacts the abundance and apparent density of sand fly vectors of Leishmania infantum

Acta Tropica

Volumn 141, Issue Part A, 2015, Pages 73-78

  Barhoumi, Walid ^a   Qualls, Whitney A ^b   Archer, Reginald S ^c   Fuller, Douglas O ^c   Chelbi, Ifhem ^a   Cherni, Saifedine ^a   Derbali, Mohamed ^a   Arheart, Kristopher L ^b   Zhioua, Elyes ^a   Beier, John C ^b  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Human visceral leishmaniasis; Integrated vector management; Phlebotomus perfiliewi; Remote sensing approaches

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARID REGION; ENTOMOLOGY; FLY; IRRIGATION; LEISHMANIASIS; POPULATION DENSITY; REMOTE SENSING;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOTOMUS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHODIDAE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REMOTE SENSING; SERGENTOMYIA; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TUNISIA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; ANIMAL; DESERT CLIMATE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRANSMISSION;

SIDI BOU ZID; TUNISIA;

LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS PERFILIEWI;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; ANIMALS; DESERT CLIMATE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; PHLEBOTOMUS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHODIDAE; TUNISIA;

EID: 84908265450     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.10.008     Document Type: Article

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