| the sandfly fauna in the visceral-leishmaniasis focus of gedaref, in the atbara-river area of eastern sudan. | visceral leishmaniasis (vl) is an acute public-health problem in sudan. between 1997 and 2000, four, brief entomological surveys were carried out in barbar el fugarra, a village in the state of gedaref, in the atbara-river area of eastern sudan. between 1996 and 1999, 658 cases of vl occurred among the village's population of about 4000. cdc miniature light-traps set inside and outside human dwellings were used to collect a total of 12,745 sandflies, including five species of the genus phlebotom ... | 2002 | 12396326 |