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Ecology, feeding and natural infection by Leishmania spp. of phlebotomine sand flies in an area of high incidence of American tegumentary leishmaniasis in the municipality of Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil

BACKGROUND: Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) are insects of medical importance due to their involvement in the zoonotic transmission of Leishmania spp. to vertebrates. The aim of this work was to study the ecology of the sand fly fauna of two types of environments, a rural environment...

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Autores principales: de Ávila, Márcia Moreira, Brilhante, Andreia Fernandes, de Souza, Cristian Ferreira, Bevilacqua, Paula Dias, Galati, Eunice Aparecida Bianchi, Brazil, Reginaldo Peçanha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5787322/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29373995
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2641-y