Sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis in a cutaneous leishmaniasis focus in central Colombia
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Sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis in a Cutaneous leishmaniasis focus in central Colombia.
Lutzomyia longipalpis, 15 other species of the genus Lutzomyia, and one species of Brumptomyia were collected in an endemic focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in a river canyon 450 m above sea-level, in Rio Claro, Antioquia, Colombia. The presence of Lu. longipalpis is associated with the destruction of the primary forest and the development of new farmland and rural settlement in this region. Th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0074-0276
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02761996000400005