Insecticide-impregnated dog collars reduce infantile clinical visceral leishmaniasis under operational conditions in NW Iran: A community-wide cluster randomised trial.

• 主要な著者: Orin Courtenay (著者), Ahad Bazmani (著者), Parviz Parvizi (著者), Paul D Ready (著者), Mary M Cameron (著者)
• フォーマット: 図書
• 出版事項: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• 主題: article
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OBJECTIVE:To assess the effectiveness of community-wide deployment of insecticide-impregnated collars for dogs- the reservoir of Leishmania infantum-to reduce infantile clinical visceral leishmaniasis (VL). METHODS:A pair matched-cluster randomised controlled trial involving 40 collared and 40 uncol...