Seasonal variation in the prevalence of sand flies infected with Leishmania donovani.

Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) is a life threatening neglected infectious disease in the Indian subcontinent, transmitted by the bite of female sand flies. Estimation of the infectivity in the vector population, collected in different seasons, may be useful to better understanding the transmission dyna...

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Main Authors: Puja Tiwary, Dinesh Kumar, Mukesh Mishra, Rudra Pratap Singh, Madhukar Rai, Shyam Sundar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3621828?pdf=render