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Household rat infestation in urban slum populations: Development and validation of a predictive score for leptospirosis
Domestic rats are the principal reservoir for urban leptospirosis. However, few studies have identified infestation markers in slums and evaluated their predictivity for leptospirosis risk. We compared households with leptospirosis cases in Salvador, Brazil between 2007 and 2009 and their neighbors...
Autores principales: | Costa, Federico, Zeppelini, Caio Graco, Ribeiro, Guilherme S., Santos, Norlan, Reis, Renato Barbosa, Martins, Ridalva D., Bittencourt, Deborah, Santana, Carlos, Brant, Jonas, Reis, Mitermayer G., Ko, Albert I. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7959339/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33657101 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009154 |
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