Seasonal Dynamics of Phlebotomine Sand Fly Species Proven Vectors of Mediterranean Leishmaniasis Caused by Leishmania infantum.

• Main Authors: Bulent Alten (Author), Carla Maia (Author), Maria Odete Afonso (Author), Lenea Campino (Author), Maribel Jiménez (Author), Estela González (Author), Ricardo Molina (Author), Anne Laure Bañuls (Author), Jorian Prudhomme (Author), Baptiste Vergnes (Author), Celine Toty (Author), Cécile Cassan (Author), Nil Rahola (Author), Magali Thierry (Author), Denis Sereno (Author), Gioia Bongiorno (Author), Riccardo Bianchi (Author), Cristina Khoury (Author), Nikolaos Tsirigotakis (Author), Emmanouil Dokianakis (Author), Maria Antoniou (Author), Vasiliki Christodoulou (Author), Apostolos Mazeris (Author), Mehmet Karakus (Author), Yusuf Ozbel (Author), Suha K Arserim (Author), Ozge Erisoz Kasap (Author), Filiz Gunay (Author), Gizem Oguz (Author), Sinan Kaynas (Author), Nikoloz Tsertsvadze (Author), Lamzira Tskhvaradze (Author), Ekaterina Giorgobiani (Author), Marina Gramiccia (Author), Petr Volf (Author), Luigi Gradoni (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:The recent geographical expansion of phlebotomine vectors of Leishmania infantum in the Mediterranean subregion has been attributed to ongoing climate changes. At these latitudes, the activity of sand flies is typically seasonal; because seasonal phenomena are also sensitive to general va...