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Cáris Maroni Nunes1, Marina Mota Pires, Karinne Marques da Silva, Filipe Daniel Assis, Jesualdo Gonçalves Filho, Silvia Helena Venturoli Perri.
Abstract
Domestic dogs are the main reservoirs of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in urban areas; one of the control measures adopted in Brazil is the elimination of this reservoir. In order to test the relationship between the euthanasia rate of the canine reservoir and the incidence of the disease in humans, data on dog culling from the Centre for Zoonosis Control of Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil, during the period from 1999 to 2008 and visceral leishmaniasis human cases registered in the same period were analyzed. Reduction of human VL incidence was statistically correlated to dog euthanasia rate (P=0.0211; r(2)=0.616) when it was analyzed for the period of two years after application of this measure. Other factors that may influence this relationship are considered. (c) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID： 20181428 DOI： 10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.01.044
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Vet Parasitol ISSN： 0304-4017 Impact factor: 2.738