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The epidemiology of canine visceral leishmaniasis in southern France: classical theory offers another explanation of the data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Christopher Dye
Christopher Dye
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT
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Summary

This paper describes a compartmental model incorporating biological details of the transmission of canine visceral leishmaniasis in southern France. In contrast to earlier, empirical models (Jolivet, 1977; Rioux, Croset & Lanotte, 1977) the new model (1) predicts a threshold density of sandflies below which transmission cannot be sustained, (2) suggests that, until better data become available, the maximum prevalence of infection obtained at high sandfly density should be considered an unknown quantity.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 96 , Issue 1 , February 1988 , pp. 19 - 24
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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