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SUBMITTER: Erguler K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6385250 | biostudies-other | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Erguler Kamil K Pontiki Irene I Zittis George G Proestos Yiannis Y Christodoulou Vasiliki V Tsirigotakis Nikolaos N Antoniou Maria M Kasap Ozge Erisoz OE Alten Bulent B Lelieveld Jos J
Scientific reports 20190221 1
Sand flies are responsible for the transmission of leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease claiming more than 50,000 lives annually. Leishmaniasis is an emerging health risk in tropical and Mediterranean countries as well as temperate regions in North America and Europe. There is an increasing demand for predicting population dynamics and spreading of sand flies to support management and control, yet phenotypic diversity and complex environmental dependence hamper model development. Here, we ...[more]