Estimating the efficacy of community-wide use of systemic insecticides in dogs to control zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis: A modelling study in a Brazilian scenario.

Systemic insecticides in dogs have been suggested as a public health intervention to prevent human cases of Zoonotic Visceral Leishmaniasis (ZVL). But, currently there are no systemic insecticides for dogs registered against zoo-anthropophilic pool blood feeding phlebotomine flies. We predict the im...

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Main Authors: Sonia A Gomez, Lloyd A C Chapman, Erin Dilger, Orin Courtenay, Albert Picado
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-09-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6160230?pdf=render