Urbanization of visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil Urbanización de la leishmaniasis visceral (kala-azar) en Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil

• Main Authors: Polianna Lemos Moura Moreira Albuquerque, Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Júnior, Caio César Furtado Freire, Stephanie Bachi de Castro Oliveira, Daniel Medeiros Almeida, Herivaldo Ferreira da Silva, Maria do Socorro Cavalcante, Anastácio de Queiroz Sousa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2009
• Subjects: Leishmaniasis visceral; epidemiología; zonas urbanas; Brasil; Leishmaniasis; visceral; kala-azar; epidemiology; urban zones; Brazil; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Azar
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/76f8bf7c3fc347f2af835779a8b06f34

OBJECTIVES: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is endemic in Brazil and appears to occur in epidemic form in the state of Ceará. Few epidemiologic studies have been done on VL in this state. The aim of this study is to establish the epidemiologic pattern of VL in Fortaleza City and to show how urbanization...