Transmission potential, skin inflammatory response, and parasitism of symptomatic and asymptomatic dogs with visceral leishmaniasis

BACKGROUND: Visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil is caused by the protozoan Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi and it is transmitted by sandfly of the genus Lutzomyia. Dogs are an important domestic reservoir, and control of the transmission of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) to humans includes the elimination...

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Autores principales: Verçosa, BLA, Lemos, CM, Mendonça, IL, Silva, SMMS, de Carvalho, SM, Goto, H, Costa, FAL
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2613136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18990238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-6148-4-45

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