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- Title
OPASNOST OD PARAZITSKIH ZOONOZA U POVEZANOSTI SA POSLJEDNJIM VALOM MIGRANATA (4) - LIŠMANIOZA.
- Authors
Štimac, Iva; Martinković, Franjo
- Abstract
Leishmaniasis is an invasive disease caused by obligatory intracellular parasites of the genus Leishmania. They are transmitted by the bite of infected female sandflies (insects from the subfamily Phlebotominae). Members of the genus Phlebotomus are biological vectors in the Old World, and the genus Lutzomyia in the New World. Estimates are 50 000 to 90 000 new cases of visceral leishmaniasis and 600 000 to 1 million new cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis occur worldwide on an annual basis. In the Syrian Arab Republic, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Republic of Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the most common isolated causes of cutaneous leishmaniasis are Leishmania tropica and L. major, while the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis is L. infantum, except in the Republic of Iraq where was isolated L. donovani. In the European Mediterranean region, visceral and cutaneous forms are caused by L. infantum, while L. tropica causes a cutaneous form in Greece. In the past few years, incidence of leishmaniasis has been increasing, while the endemic foci have expanded and the breakouts have been registered in the non-endemic areas. Presence of biological vectors from the genus Phlebotomus is considered a risk factor, so imperative is to develop strategies to reduce the number of vectors during the season of their high activity. In order to register potential alterations in the spread of leishmaniasis in Europe, information on the presence of biological vectors and their movement is mandatory. In the mobile populations such as migrants and refugees, breakouts of vector-borne diseases are not unexpected whatsoever. For this reason, the right to healthcare and universal access to public health services remain of importance in the prevention of secondary cases and disease outbreaks.
- Subjects
IRAQ; LEISHMANIASIS; VISCERAL leishmaniasis; CUTANEOUS leishmaniasis; PUBLIC health; VECTOR-borne diseases; PHLEBOTOMUS; DISEASE vectors
- Publication
Veterinaria, 2022, Vol 71, Issue 1, p101
- ISSN
0372-6827
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.51607/22331360.2022.71.1.101