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Vector density. Hundreds of phlebotomine sand flies (Lutzomyia longipalpis) on a chicken (A) that was resting on a tree trunk in Passira, north-eastern Brazil, where visceral leishmaniosis is endemic. (B) shows a close-up of the phlebotomine sand flies
