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Surveillance of arboviruses in Spanish wetlands: detection of new flavi- and phleboviruses.

[Factors relating to occurrences of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Ribeira Valley]

Awareness about kala-azar disease and related preventive attitudes and practices in a highly endemic rural area of India.

Differential midgut attachment of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis in the sand flies Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) whitmani and Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) intermedia.

Education is key to controlling visceral leishmaniasis.

A family with skin lesions.

The use of remote sensing in the identification of the eco-environmental factors associated with the risk of human visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) on the Gangetic plain, in north-eastern India.

The prominent role of neutrophils during the initial phase of infection by Leishmania parasites.

Presence of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta (Westwood) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) stimulates burrowing behavior by larvae of the sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva) (Diptera: Psychodidae).

Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

[First record of Lutzomyia (Trichopygomyia) conviti Ramirez Perez, Martins & Ramirez (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Brazil].

[Mosquito fevers. Classification of viruses, epidemiology, prevention].

A taxonomic reassessment of the Phlebotomus argentipes species complex (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae).

Phylogenetic relationships among species of Lutzomyia, subgenus Lutzomyia (Diptera: Psychodidae).

[Study on the transmission of American cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Federal District].

[Isolation of microsatellite DNA and the polymorphic locus screening from Phlebotomus chinensis (Diptera:Psychodidae)].

[Blood feeding preference of Lutzomyia whitmani (Diptera, Psychodidae) in a transmission area for American cutaneous leishmaniasis in the State of Maranhão, Brazil]

Distribution of Lutzomyia whitmani in phytoregions of the state of Maranhão, Northeastern Brazil.

Species structure of sand fly (Diptera: Psychodidae) fauna in the Brazilian western Amazon.

Species diversity and relative abundance of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) on three Army installations in the southern United States and susceptibility of a domestic sand fly to infection with Old World Leishmania major.