| zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in saudi arabia: the incrimination of phlebotomus papatasi as the vector in the al-hassa oasis. | surveys of the phlebotomine fauna in a focus of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) in the al-hassa oasis, eastern province, saudi arabia, revealed only one species of phlebotomus (p. papatasi) and three of sergentomyia (s. antennata, s. clydei and s. fallax). 11 specimens of p. papatasi from six sites in the oasis were found with promastigotes in the midgut. an isolate from one of the sandflies was typed by the examination of isoenzymes and identified as leishmania major, zymodeme lon-4 (= m ... | 1985 | 4002297 |