Epidemiology and ecology of leishmaniasis in Latin-America
- 1 June 1978
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 273 (5664) , 595-600
- https://doi.org/10.1038/273595a0
Abstract
Of the human diseases caused by protozoal parasites, leishmaniasis is probably 2nd in importance only to malaria. Chemotherapeutic drugs are toxic, expensive and not 100% effective. This, and the absence of any non-living vaccine against the disease, means that control depends on eliminating vertebrate reservoirs and/or insect vectors. Recently, a greatly increased knowledge of the Leishmania spp. involved, and of their natural hosts, helped to define the nature and extent of the problem.Keywords
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