Quantifying the contribution of hosts with different parasite concentrations to the transmission of visceral leishmaniasis in Ethiopia.

• Main Authors: Ezer Miller (Author), Alon Warburg (Author), Ilya Novikov (Author), Asrat Hailu (Author), Petr Volf (Author), Veronika Seblova (Author), Amit Huppert (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: An important factor influencing the transmission dynamics of vector-borne diseases is the contribution of hosts with different parasitemia (no. of parasites per ml of blood) to the infected vector population. Today, estimation of this contribution is often impractical since it relies exc...