Epidemiological aspects of human and canine visceral leishmaniasis in Venezuela

• Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
• Main Authors: Olga Zerpa, Marian Ulrich, Rafael Borges, Vestalia Rodríguez, Marta Centeno, Emilia Negrón, Doris Belizario, Jacinto Convit
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2003
• Subjects: Leishmaniasis; dogs; communicable disease control; Venezuela; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Margarita
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/s1020-49892003000300006; https://doaj.org/article/a91900bcabef46ebbaccb32f79b20ac2

OBJECTIVE: To report recent data on the distribution of human and canine visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Venezuela, and to highlight problems associated with effective control measures. METHODS: We report the number of cases, incidence rate, age and sex distribution, and mortality rates for human VL...