Canine visceral leishmaniasis in an urban setting of Southeastern Brazil: An ecological study involving spatial analysis

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Teixeira Neto, Rafael Gonçalves ^a,b   Da Silva, Eduardo Sérgio ^b   Nascimento, Renata Aparecida ^b   Belo, Vinícius Silva ^a,c   De Oliveira, Cláudia Di Lorenzo ^b   Pinheiro, Letícia Cavalari ^a   Gontijo, Célia Maria Ferreira ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO JOÃO DEL REI   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Disease control; Epidemiology; Spatial analysis; Statistical tools; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DOG DISEASE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIRECT FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; ANIMAL; CITY; DOG; DOG DISEASES; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; PARASITOLOGY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CITIES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 84964696725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-014-0485-7     Document Type: Article

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