First Human Cases of Leishmania (Viannia) lainsoni Infection and a Search for the Vector Sand Flies in Ecuador

• Hirotomo Kato ,

  * E-mail: hirok@jichi.ac.jp

  Affiliations Division of Medical Zoology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan, Laboratory of Parasitology, Department of Disease Control, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Abdon E. Bone,

  Affiliation Servicio Nacional de Erradicacion de la Malaria (SNEM), Ministerio de Salud Publica, Coca, Ecuador

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• Tatsuyuki Mimori,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

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• Kazue Hashiguchi,

  Affiliation Departamento de Parasitologia y Medicina Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias Medicas, Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador

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• Gonzalo F. Shiguango,

  Affiliation Servicio Nacional de Erradicacion de la Malaria (SNEM), Ministerio de Salud Publica, Coca, Ecuador

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• Silvio V. Gonzales,

  Affiliation Centro de Biomedicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Lenin N. Velez,

  Affiliation Departamento de Parasitologia y Medicina Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias Medicas, Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador

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• Angel G. Guevara,

  Affiliation Centro de Biomedicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Eduardo A. Gomez,

  Affiliation Departamento de Parasitologia y Medicina Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias Medicas, Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador

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• Yoshihisa Hashiguchi

  Affiliation Departamento de Parasitologia y Medicina Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias Medicas, Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador

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