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SUBMITTER: Lana RS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4352511 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lana Rosana Silva RS Michalsky Érika Monteiro ÉM Fortes-Dias Consuelo Latorre CL França-Silva João Carlos JC Lara-Silva Fabiana de Oliveira Fde O Lima Ana Cristina Vianna Mariano da Rocha AC Moreira de Avelar Daniel D Martins Juliana Cristina Dias JC Dias Edelberto Santos ES
BioMed research international 20150222
In the New World, the leishmaniases are primarily transmitted to humans through the bites of Leishmania-infected Lutzomyia (Diptera: Psychodidae) phlebotomine sand flies. Any or both of two basic clinical forms of these diseases are endemic to several cities in Brazil--the American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) and the American visceral leishmaniasis (AVL). The present study was conducted in the urban area of a small-sized Brazilian municipality (Jaboticatubas), in which three cases of AVL and n ...[more]