Parasite species variation and impact of spatial displacement of the population on cutaneous leishmaniasis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Mariza M SalgueiroMaria Inês Fernandes PimentelLuciana F C MirandaRafael R Cunha E SilvaLiliane F A OliveiraMarcelo R LyraMauricio N SahekiClaudia M Valete-RosalinoAna Cristina C MartinsArmando O SchubachMauro C A MarzochiSandro J Bedoya-PachecoPublished in: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2021)
The disordered urbanization of the state of Rio de Janeiro in recent decades has created conditions for the emergence of urban foci of transmission close to forest areas. Changes in the environment, movement of infected individuals and adaptation of sandflies may have contributed to this.