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- Title
ANNUAL PRESENTATION OF PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI AND THE INCIDENCE OF CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS IN THI-QAR GOVERNORATE.
- Authors
Zahraa Sadoon Hadi, Sadek J. T.; Al-Wahed Banian, Muna Abd
- Abstract
The incidence of cutaneous leishmaniasis is widespread, as humans and animals can be infected with this parasitic disease, which is transmitted through Phlebotomus papatasi (sand fly). Therefore, the present study aimed to determining annual presentation of Phlebotomus papatasi and prevalence of Cutaneous leishmaniasis according to some criteria (gender, sample collection time, age, location). The current study included 2826 Cutaneous leishmaniasis patients with the highest incidence of males 56.94% compared to females 43.06%. The highest percentage of infection in January was 40,30% compared to 0.21% in the month of September. The highest incidence rate was (5-15) years 43.98% and the lowest in patients aged (>45) years was 7.50%with no significant differences. The rate of infection by the location of residence for the rural was 67.34% and the urban was 32.66% with significant differences.
- Subjects
PHLEBOTOMUS papatasi; CUTANEOUS leishmaniasis; PARASITIC diseases; DISEASE prevalence; ULCERS; QUANTITATIVE research
- Publication
Biochemical & Cellular Archives, 2019, Vol 19, p2415
- ISSN
0972-5075
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.35124/bca.2019.19.S1.2415