%0 Journal Article
%T Epidemiologia de la leishmaniasis tegumentaria en merida, Venezuela. I. Diversidade y dispersion de especies flebotominas en tres pisos altitudinales y su possible r£¿le en la transmission de enfermedad
%A A£¿ez
%A N.
%A Cazorla
%A D.
%A Nieves
%A E.
%A Chataing
%A B.
%A Castro
%A M.
%A Yarbuh
%A A. L. de
%J Mem¨®rias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
%D 1988
%I Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Minist¨¦rio da Sa¨²de
%R 10.1590/S0074-02761988000400011
%X as part of an epidemiological study on leishmaniasis in merida, venezuela, the diversity and dispersion of sandflies species found in 15 localities between 175 m and 1,960 m.a.s.l., are presented. from 7,126 collected sandflies (5,132 men and 1,994 women), 24 species were identified, 10 of them recognized as anthropophilic. the relation species-altitud is presented, and the species composition found in human dwellings, peridomestic and sylvatic areas, are recorded. the possible r£¿le of the identified species on the transmission of leishmaniasis in the andean region, is discussed.
%K phlebotomine sandflies
%K diversity
%K dispersion
%K leishmaniasis
%K transmission
%K epidemiology.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0074-02761988000400011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en