Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 6, Issue 6 , Pages 376-379 , November 2008

Cutaneous leishmaniasis imported from Colombia to Northcentral Venezuela: Implications for travel advice

  • Olinda Delgado

      Affiliations

    • Division of Immunoparasitology, Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 101, Venezuela
    • ,
  • Sylvia Silva

      Affiliations

    • Division of Immunoparasitology, Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 101, Venezuela
    • ,
  • Virginia Coraspe

      Affiliations

    • Division of Immunoparasitology, Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 101, Venezuela
    • ,
  • Maria A. Rivas

      Affiliations

    • Division of Immunoparasitology, Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 101, Venezuela
    • ,
  • Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales

      Affiliations

    • Division of Immunoparasitology, Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 101, Venezuela
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +58 4168269482; fax: +58 2126053647.
    • ,
  • Pedro Navarro

      Affiliations

    • Division of Tropical Medicine, Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
    • ,
  • Carlos Franco-Paredes

      Affiliations

    • Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
    • Hospital Infantil de Mexico, Federico Gomez, Mexico D.F., Mexico

Received 13 March 2008 ,Revised 18 June 2008 ,Accepted 24 June 2008.

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☆ This study was presented in part at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, Atlanta, GA, USA, November 12–16, 2006 (Poster Presentation Number 444).

PII: S1477-8939(08)00102-6

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2008.06.012

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 6, Issue 6 , Pages 376-379 , November 2008

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