| risk of infection with leishmania spp. in the canine population in the netherlands. | the dog is the main reservoir of leishmania infantum, the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis (vl) in humans in southern europe. in order to identify the risk of dogs from a leishmania non-endemic area traveling to a leishmania-endemic area becoming infected and the risk of transmitting infection to humans in non-endemic areas an investigation was performed, in which the results of a questionnaire were combined with the results of a serologic survey. the questionnaire was sent to 1478 at r ... | 2002 | 12831172 |