Sand Flies (Diptera: Phlebotominae) in Sanliurfa, Turkey: Relationship ofPhlebotomus sergentiwith the Epidemic of Anthroponotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
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Sand flies (Diptera: Phlebotominae) in Sanliurfa, Turkey: relationship of Phlebotomus sergenti with the epidemic of anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis.
Sand fly (Diptera: Phlebotominae) fauna were surveyed in various districts of Sanliurfa in southeast Turkey for 3 yr immediately after an epidemic of cutaneous leishmaniasis (Leishmania tropica). Sticky papers and CDC light traps collected a total of 10,937 sand flies, of which 10,919 (4,158 females and 6,761 males) were identified as Phlebotomus and 18 (11 females and seven males) as Sergentom...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Entomology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0022-2585,1938-2928
DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585-39.1.12