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Temporal Dynamics and Impact of Climate Factors on the Incidence of Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Central Tunisia

BACKGROUND: Old world Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ZCL) is a vector-borne human disease caused by Leishmania major, a unicellular eukaryotic parasite transmitted by pool blood-feeding sand flies mainly to wild rodents, such as Psammomys obesus. The human beings who share the rodent and sand fly...

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Autores principales: Toumi, Amine, Chlif, Sadok, Bettaieb, Jihene, Alaya, Nissaf Ben, Boukthir, Aicha, Ahmadi, Zaher E., Salah, Afif Ben
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3341328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22563513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001633