Publications

cutaneous leishmaniasis in the peruvian andes: risk factors identified from a village cohort study.	risk factors for cutaneous leishmaniasis were identified from a comparative study of transmission rates in 27 villages in the departments of lima, ancash, and piura in peru. to evaluate regression analysis as a tool for the incrimination of sand fly vectors in the absence of other biologic evidence, univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to identify which of 14 variables (the abundance of nine sand fly species, four social factors, and region) predicted transmission r ...	1997	9063368
[outbreak of bubonic plague in jacocha, huancabamba, perú ].	climatic alterations arising in the north of perú as a result of the el niño phenomenon (enso) have caused variations in the crop volume, changes in the direction of rivers and probably an increase in the rodent population. in february 1999, in a native community in jacocha, huancabamba, piura's mountains, perú, an outbreak of bubonic plague appeared with five human cases, one of which lead to death. the diagnosis was confirmed by serology (passive hemaglutination). the presence of antibodies in ...	2001	11340502