Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Tachira State, Venezuela
| Autor: | D. Feliciangeli, B. Guzman, M. J. Dougherty, R. Maingon, R.E. Adamson, J. Convit, R. D. Ward, N. Rodriguez, Michael L. Chance, I. Petralanda |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Leishmaniasis Mucocutaneous Adolescent Rain Leishmania mexicana 030231 tropical medicine Leishmaniasis Cutaneous Leishmania braziliensis 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cutaneous leishmaniasis 030225 pediatrics Prevalence medicine Animals Humans Psychodidae Child Aged Aged 80 and over biology Ecology Age Factors Infant Newborn Infant Leishmaniasis Middle Aged Venezuela biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Sandfly Infectious Diseases Child Preschool Vector (epidemiology) Parasitology Lutzomyia |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology. 88:29-36 |
| ISSN: | 1364-8594 0003-4983 |
| Popis: | Cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniases are widely spread in the mountainous Andean regions of South America. In Venezuela, these regions consist of the coffee-growing states of Trujillo, Merida and Tachira. Entomological and parasitological investigations in three geographically different climatic zones (Lomas Bajas, Delicias and La Grita) in Tachira state have shown a predominance of the sandfly species Lutzomyia spinicrassa (verrucarum group) and two Leishmania species, Leishmania mexicana and Leishmania braziliensis. Two transmission cycles appear to occur: a peridomestic cycle in Lomas Bajas and a sylvatic one in Delicias and La Grita. |
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