| [interepidemic surveillance of a cutaneous leishmaniasis focus in senegal]. | the cutaneous leishmaniasis is rampant in an endemo -epidemic way in the region of thiès, senegal. at the occasion of an epidemic observed between 1975 and 1978, the ecological study of the focus of keur moussa , led by dedet and al., permitted to discover, for the first time in west africa, the structure of a cutaneous leishmaniasis focus. the most important part of the present laboratory work consists in the observation of that wild anthropozoonosis due to leishmania tropica major, having as v ... | 1984 | 6738336 |
| [ecology of a cutaneous leishmaniasis focus in the thies region (senegal, west africa). 5. spontaneous infection and disease reservoir role of various wild rodent species]. | the authors describe spontaneous infection of mastomys erythroleucus and tatera gambiana by leishmania strains typed as l. major. they argue the reservoir role to these two species and the one of arvicanthis niloticus previously found infected. the possible relations between the fluctuations of rodent populations and the incidence of the human disease are then discussed. | 1981 | 7296732 |
| [interepidemic supervision of the leishmania focus of keur moussa (thies, senegal)]. | a supervision of the focus of human cutaneous leishmaniasis of keur moussa has been carried out in 1988-1989 and in 1991-1992. among the 13 species gathering the 10,144 phlebotomine sandflies trapped, two belong to genus phlebotomus, the others to genus sergentomyia. phlebotomus duboscqi, that has been found out by deded et al. in 1980 as the vector of this leishmaniasis in senegal, is the most represented species after sergentomyia schwetzi, with respectively 32.3 and 28.5% of the found during ... | 1998 | 9754297 |