Risk factors, representations and practices associated with emerging urban human visceral leishmaniasis in Posadas, Argentina;Factores de riesgo, representaciones y prácticas asociadas con la leishmaniasis visceral humana en un foco urbano emergente en Posadas, Argentina

Biomedica

Volumn 36, Issue , 2016, Pages 51-63

  López, Karen ^a,b   Tartaglino, Lilian Catalina ^a   Steinhorst, Ingrid Iris ^a   Santini, María Soledad ^c,d   Salomón, Oscar Daniel ^d,e  

^a Secretaria de Calidad de Vida   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MISIONES   (Argentina)

^c Administracion Nacional de Laboratorios E Institutos de Salud Dr Carlos G Malbran   (Argentina)

^d Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^e Instituto Nacional de Medicina Tropical ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Attitudes; Health knowledge; Leishmaniasis; Neglected diseases; Practice; Risk factors; Visceral

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOG; DOG DISEASE; HUMAN; INSECT VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84973293729     PISSN: 01204157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7705/biomedica.v36i2.2953     Document Type: Article

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