Twenty-four new human cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania killicki in Metlaoui, southwestern Tunisia. Probable role of Phlebotomus sergenti in the transmission
- 30 June 2012
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Acta Tropica
- Vol. 122 (3), 276-283
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.01.014
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- WHO/TDR-EMRO (Operational Research in Tropical and Communicable Disease)
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