From Mud and Stick-walled Houses to Corrugated Iron sheet Houses: A New Strategy for Preventing Human-Vector Contact in Marigat Sub-county a Leishmaniasis-endemic Area in Kenya

Department of Technical and Applied Biology, Technical University of Kenya, Kenya 2 Department of Science and Health, Daystar University, Kenya 3 Centre for Biotechnology, Research and Development, Leishmaniasis Laboratory, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya

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