American cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Pontal of Paranapanema - SP, Brazil: ecological and entomological aspects Leishmaniose cutânea americana no Pontal do Paranapanema, SP, Brasil: aspectos ecológicos e entomológicos

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Claudia Álvares Calvo Alessi, Eunice Aparecida Bianchi Galati, José Roberto Alves, Carlos Eduardo Pereira Corbett
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2009
• Subjects: American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis; Ecology; Phlebotominae; Brazil; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Hora; Morro
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46652009000500008; https://doaj.org/article/90d90881378546a38f63b946a8b4eb16

American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) occurs in epidemic outbreaks and in sporadic cases with small annual variation in the Pontal of Paranapanema, SP. There is little research on the sandfly fauna of this region. The last outbreaks were related to the Movement of the Landless Workers (MST) and wit...