First report of an autochthonous human visceral leishmaniasis in a child from the South of Minas Gerais State, Brazil

First report of an autochthonous human visceral leishmaniasis in a child from the South of Minas Gerais State, Brazil

ABSTRACT American visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a vector-borne disease transmitted by some species of phlebotomine sandflies from the genus Lutzomyia. This neglected tropical zoonosis shows increasing urbanization process, since the end of the 1980s. After the emergence of foci of the disease in ur...

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Main Authors: Thiago Pasqua Narciso, Richardson Costa Carvalho, Luciano Carvalho Campos, Agostinho Gonçalves Viana, Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara, Thales Augusto Barçante, Ingrid Marciano Alvarenga, Joziana Muniz de Paiva Barçante
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2018-12-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Subjects:
Leishmaniasis
Neglected diseases
Vector-borne disease
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