| Abstrakt: |
In Panama, phlebotomine sandflies are characteristically forest insects and the disease agents transmitted by them (cutaneous lcishmaniasis and several arbovirus infections) arc normally contracted only by people living in rural areas or entering the forest for work or recreation (Johnson, 1968, Amer. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 17: 819–22; Peralta et al., 1965, Amer. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 14: 146–51; Tesh et al., 1969, Amer. J. Epidemiol. 90: 255–61; Walton et al., 1968, Amer. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 17: 19–24). Although prineipally rural in occurrence, sandfly-transmitted disease agents are a public health problem in both the Canal Zone and the Republic of Panama. |
