| cutaneous leishmaniasis in tunisia: results of the iso-enzymatic characterization of 71 strains. | three clinico-epidemiological forms of cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) exist in tunisia: zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl; epidemic in the centre and the south-west); sporadic cutaneous leishmaniasis (scl; found in the north); and chronic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ccl; originally described from tataouine, in the south-east). as few isolates of leishmania from tunisian cases of cl have been typed, isolates were collected, using nnn medium, from 71 such cases. most (59) of the cases investigated ... | 2005 | 15701250 |
| ecological niche modeling for the prediction of the geographic distribution of cutaneous leishmaniasis in tunisia. | cutaneous leishmaniasis is a very complex disease involving multiple factors that limit its emergence and spatial distribution. prediction of cutaneous leishmaniasis epidemics in tunisia remains difficult because most of the epidemiological tools used so far are descriptive in nature and mainly focus on a time dimension. the purpose of this work is to predict the potential geographic distribution of phlebotomus papatasi and zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by leishmania major in tunisia u ... | 2016 | 26856914 |
| spatio-temporal genetic structuring of leishmania major in tunisia by microsatellite analysis. | in tunisia, cases of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by leishmania major are increasing and spreading from the south-west to new areas in the center. to improve the current knowledge on l. major evolution and population dynamics, we performed multi-locus microsatellite typing of human isolates from tunisian governorates where the disease is endemic (gafsa, kairouan and sidi bouzid governorates) and collected during two periods: 1991-1992 and 2008-2012. analysis (f-statistics and bayesian ... | 2015 | 26302440 |