Spatiotemporal analysis and environmental risk factors of visceral leishmaniasis in an urban setting in São Paulo State, Brazil

Spatiotemporal analysis and environmental risk factors of visceral leishmaniasis in an urban setting in São Paulo State, Brazil

Abstract Background In Latin America, Brazil harbors the most cases of human visceral leishmaniasis (HVL). Since the early 1980s, the disease has spread to the urban centers of the north, and now the south and west of Brazil; it reached São Paulo state in the southeast in 1996, and Presidente Pruden...

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Main Authors: Luiz E. Prestes-Carneiro, Loris A. F. Daniel, Lívia C. Almeida, Lourdes Zampieri D’Andrea, André G. Vieira, Ivete R. Anjolete, Lenira André, Edilson F. Flores
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:Parasites & Vectors
Subjects:
Lutzomyia longipalpis
Entomological survey
Canine visceral leishmaniasis
Human visceral leishmaniasis
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13071-019-3496-6

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