Species diversity and relative abundance of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) on three Army installations in the southern United States and susceptibility of a domestic sand fly to infection with Old World Leishmania major.

Leishmania infections in American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have raised concern that veterans could serve as reservoirs of Old World parasites for domestic vector populations. A survey of sand flies on three U.S. Army facilities in the southern United States was conducted to identify potentia...

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Published in:	Military Medicine Vol. 174; no. 11; pp. 1203 - 1209
Main Authors:	Claborn DM, Rowton ED, Lawyer PG, Brown GC, Keep LW, Claborn, David M, Rowton, Edgar D, Lawyer, Phillip G, Brown, Grayson C, Keep, Lisa W
Format:	research Journal Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Nov2009
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