| leishmaniasis in sudan. cutaneous leishmaniasis. | cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) in sudan is caused by leishmania major, zymodeme lon-1. the disease is endemic in many parts of the country. the vector is phlebotomus papatasi and the animal reservoir is probably the nile rat arvicanthis niloticus. clinically, patients usually present with papules, nodules, or nodulo-ulcerative lesions, mainly on the exposed parts of the skin. in 20% of cases the parasite disseminates through the lymphatics, producing sporotrichoid-like lesions. the pathology of th ... | 2001 | 11370248 |
| evidence for genetic differentiation at the microgeographic scale in phlebotomus papatasi populations from sudan. | cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) is endemic in sudan. it is caused by leishmania major parasites and transmitted by phlebotomus papatasi sandflies. recently, uncommon clinical manifestations of cl have been reported. moreover, l. donovani parasites that cause visceral leishmaniasis (vl) have been isolated from cl lesions of some patients who contracted the disease in khartoum state, central sudan with no history of travelling to vl endemic sites on south-eastern sudan. because different clinical man ... | 2012 | 23146340 |