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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060 EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 96, No. 2, 2001, pp. 159-162
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Bioline Code: oc01021
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 96, No. 2, 2001, pp. 159-162
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Domestic and Peridomestic Transmission of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: Changing Epidemiological Patterns Present New Control Opportunities
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum; Jean-Pierre Dujardin; Eddy Martinez; M Dora Feliciangeli; J Enrique Perez; Laura Ney Marcelino Passerat de Silans & Philippe Desjeux
Abstract
Predictions that deforestation would reduce American cutaneous leishmaniasis incidence have proved incorrect. Presentations at a recent international workshop, instead, demonstrated frequent domestication of transmission throughout Latin America. While posing new threats, this process also increases the effectiveness of vector control in and around houses. New approaches for sand fly control and effective targeting of resources are reviewed.
Keywords
American cutaneous leishmaniasis, deforestation, domestication, transmission, control
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