Ecological Niche Modeling of main reservoir hosts of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran

Acta Tropica

Volumn 160, Issue , 2016, Pages 44-52

  Gholamrezaei, Mostafa ^a   Mohebali, Mehdi ^a   Hanafi Bojd, Ahmad Ali ^a   Sedaghat, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Shirzadi, Mohammad Reza ^a,b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL EDUCATION   (Iran)

Author keywords

Animal reservoir host; Ecological Niche Modeling; Iran; Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HOST; LEISHMANIASIS; NICHE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RODENT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERBIL; INFECTION RISK; IRAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MERIONES HURRIANAE; MERIONES LIBYCUS; MURIDAE; NESOKIA INDICA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PRECIPITATION; RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TATERA INDICA; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; PARASITOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

IRAN;

ANIMALIA; GERBILLINAE; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MERIONES HURRIANAE; MERIONES LIBYCUS; NESOKIA INDICA; RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS; RODENTIA; TATERA INDICA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECOLOGY; GERBILLINAE; HUMANS; IRAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84966614938     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.04.014     Document Type: Article

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