Epidemiological and immunological aspects of human visceral leishmaniasis on Margarita Island, Venezuela.

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Published in Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz on January 20, 2003

Authors

Olga Zerpa1, Marian Ulrich, Margarita Benitez, Concepción Avila, Vestalia Rodríguez, Marta Centeno, Doris Belizario, Steven G Reed, Jacinto Convit

Author Affiliations

1: Instituto de Biomedicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela. ozerpa@telcel.net.ve

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