Epidemiological aspects of visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) in Ceará in the period 2007 to 2011

• Egile Nagusiak: Ítalo José Mesquita Cavalcante (Egilea), Marcus Raimundo Vale (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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INTRODUCTION: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL; kala-azar) is a serious zoonosis that can be lethal, especially in untreated patients. Due to the fact that the State of Ceará is still an important area of transmission of VL, and based on the constant reports of the urbanization process of the disease in...