Risk analysis and prediction of visceral leishmaniasis dispersion in São Paulo State, Brazil.

• Main Authors: Anaiá da Paixão Sevá (Author), Liang Mao (Author), Fredy Galvis-Ovallos (Author), Joanna Marie Tucker Lima (Author), Denis Valle (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is an important neglected disease caused by a protozoan parasite, and represents a serious public health problem in many parts of the world. It is zoonotic in Europe and Latin America, where infected dogs constitute the main domestic reservoir for the parasite and play a...