| two successive years studies on phlebotomus papatasi in north sinai governorate, egypt. | no doubt, zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) is increasing in north sinai governorate. the causative agent, l. major was identified as well as two animal reservoir hosts, gerbillus pyramidum and meriones crassus. this paper was intended to study the seasonal abundance and the sex ratio of the suspected insect, phlebotomus papatasi as well as to search for natural infected in wild caught females. the c.d.c. miniature light traps were used for adult collections, dissection was used for demonst ... | 1992 | 1578184 |
| isolation and characterization of leishmania major from phlebotomus papatasi and military personnel in north sinai, egypt. | | 1991 | 1780981 |
| predictive estimation of sandfly biting density at a focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the north sinai desert, egypt. | human-landing rates were compared with cdc light trap and oiled paper sticky trap rates to evaluate efficacy for estimating human-biting density of phlebotomus papatasi. strong correlation coefficients of 0.83 and 0.93 were obtained for monthly sticky trap rates and cdc light trap rates, respectively, against the monthly means for sandfly landing rate/man/hour suggesting that both methods could provide a reliable alternative method for estimating and predicting human-biting density. | 1991 | 1841214 |
| studies on zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis among a group of temporary workers in north sinai governorate, egypt. | leishmaniasis (cutaneous, cl. and visceral, vl.) is an increasing public health problem in the mediterranean region. from a practical point of view, zcl is the most important and distributed form in egypt. consequently, it was aimed to study the status of zcl among a group of temporary workers in north sinai governorate. the results showed that (i) rodent populations are more or less common in al arish city (rattus rattus and r. norvegicus), bir lehfan (gerbillus pyramidum) and abo oegela (g. py ... | 1995 | 7602176 |
| leishmania major in meriones sacramenti thomas 1922 in nakhel, north sinai, egypt. | leishmania major is a protozoal parasite of desert and savanna rodents, the vectors being mainly phlebotomus (phlebotomus) papatasi and very closely related species. man in an incidental host, in whom usually it causes zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis. in this paper, spot light survey was carried out in nakhel to identify the role of animal reservoir(s) where a sudden outbreak occurred in nakhel center. the trapped rodents were m. musculus, meriones sacramenti and gerbillus pyramidum. three isol ... | 1993 | 8376854 |
| first report of leishmania tropica from a classical focus of l. major in north-sinai, egypt. | cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) is prevalent in the egyptian sinai peninsula and previous research has consistently documented the etiologic agent to be leishmania major. we report the first isolation of leishmania tropica from human cases of cl in a northern sinai community bordering palestine. parasite culturing, real-time polymerase chain reaction (pcr), gene sequencing, and restriction fragment length polymorphism (rflp) analyses indicate cl cases in this community were caused by either l. majo ... | 2009 | 19635872 |