Study of a cutaneous leishmaniasis outbreak in General Vedia, Province of Chaco, 1996
Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. Säo Paulo
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43(2): 99-104, Mar.-Apr. 2001. ilus, graf, tab
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RESUMO
Between March and July 1996, a focalized epidemic outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis in General Vedia, province of Chaco, associated to the gallery forest of the Oro river was verified. The incidence rate in the area, which was 0-2/000 cases in preceding years, reached 8/000 cases in 1996. The risk of symptomatic infection was similar between sexes, but was different when analizing the different age groups by sex, suggesting a greater relative importance of the peridomestic transmission for the females and of the transmission in the subtropical forest for the males. Specimens of Lutzomyia intermedia, a species already incriminated as a vector of Leishmaniasis in other provinces of northern Argentina, were captured and identified in the focus locality in May 1996. The possible causes of the outbreak related to the climatic variables and the vector abundance are analyzed and the results in the framework of possible preventive and control activities are discussed
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Índice:
LILACS (Américas)
Assunto principal:
Leishmaniose Cutânea
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo de incidência
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Estudo prognóstico
Limite:
Animais
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Feminino
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Humanos
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Masculino
País/Região como assunto:
América do Sul
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Argentina
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. Säo Paulo
Assunto da revista:
Medicina Tropical
Ano de publicação:
2001
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
País de afiliação:
Argentina
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Brasil
Instituição/País de afiliação:
Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico e Investigación en Endemoepidemias CeNDIE-ANLIS 'Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán'/AR
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Ministerio de Salud Pública/AR
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