Tegumentary leishmaniasis outbreak in Bella Vista City, Corrientes, Argentina during 2003
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Tegumentary leishmaniasis outbreak in Bella Vista City, Corrientes, Argentina during 2003.
Bella Vista City, Corrientes, Argentina, reported an epidemic outbreak of tegumentary leishmaniasis during 2003. The mean age of the 31 cases was 25.0 +/- 13.7 years old, with a sex ratio male:female 1.8, and without mucosal involvement. They clustered in two contiguous neighbourhoods, 96% in the periurban border and 4% in the peripheral outskirts. The transmission peak was estimated to have oc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0074-0276
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762006000700010