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Further studies on the phlebotomine sandflies of the kala-azar endemic lowlands of Humera-Metema (north-west Ethiopia) with observations on their natural blood meal sources

BACKGROUND: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) has been known to exist in northwest Ethiopia (Humera-Metema lowlands) since the early 1970s associated with large scale agricultural development activities, often resulting in outbreaks. The latest outbreak of the disease that has started around 1995 in both...

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Autores principales: Gebre-Michael, Teshome, Balkew, Meshesha, Berhe, Nega, Hailu, Asrat, Mekonnen, Yalemtsehay
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2829606/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181077
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-3-6