Visceral leishmaniasis in border areas: clustered distribution of phlebotomine sand flies in Clorinda, Argentina.
Three years after the first report of Lutzomyia longipalpis in Clorinda, Argentina, a border city near Asunción, Paraguay, the city was surveyed again. Lu. longipalpis was found clustered in the same neighbourhoods in 2007 as in 2004, even though the scattered distribution of canine visceral leishmaniasis was more related to the traffic of dogs through the border.
Salomón
Oscar D
OD
Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico e Investigación en Endemo-epidemias, Av. Paseo Colón 568, Buenos Aires, Argentina. odanielsalomon@gmail.com
Quintana
María G
MG
Bruno
Mario R
MR
Quiriconi
Ricardo V
RV
Cabral
Viviana
V
D000818:Animals; D001118:Argentina; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004285:Dogs; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000145:classification*; D007898:Leishmaniasis, Visceral / Q000635:transmission*; D011156:Population Density; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011576:Psychodidae / Q000145:classification*