| evidence for a long-term increase in the incidence of leishmania tropica in aleppo, syria. | we report the results of a short study of the epidemiology of leishmania tropica in the sheikh maksoud district of aleppo, syria. the present and past status of infection in a community of about 100,000 people are assessed from prevalence and incidence data obtained by active and passive case detection, and from a skin test survey. l. tropica has apparently been endemic for at least 2-3 human generations in aleppo, and incidence has increased over the past decade. the current estimated force of ... | 1993 | 8236380 |
| twenty years of cutaneous leishmaniasis in aleppo, syria. | cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by leishmania tropica has long been associated with aleppo in syria. for 20 years up to the mid-1980s, the number of cases reported annually in the city and environs has remained low, not exceeding a few hundred. since then, there has been a sudden increase to several thousand cases reported each year. the increase seems too great and too sudden to be attributable to improved case detection. insecticide spraying, begun in 1991, was followed by a reduction in number ... | 1997 | 9509171 |
| aspects of the bionomics of phlebotomus sergenti sandflies from an endemic area of anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in aleppo governorate, syria. | aspects of the bionomics of phlebotomine sandflies (diptera: psychodidae) were studied from june to november 2005 in three foci of anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (acl) in aleppo governorate, syria, where the agent leishmania tropica (wright) (kinetoplastida: trypanosomatidae) is transmitted by phlebotomus sergenti parrot. syria has been designated by the world health organization as one of four countries in the old world where cutaneous leishmaniasis is hyperendemic, but little is known a ... | 2009 | 19493194 |