Epidemiological Transition and Spatial Expansion of Mountain-Type Zoonotic Visceral Leishmaniasis - China, 2010-2024

Lulu Huang1, Yanfeng Gong2, Zhengbin Zhou1

  • 1National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research; NHC Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology; WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases; National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Ministry of Science and Technology; National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, Shanghai, China.

China CDC Weekly
|April 9, 2026
PubMed
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