| first report of natural infection in hedgehogs with leishmania major, a possible reservoir of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in algeria. | we report here the first known cases of natural infection of hedgehogs with leishmania major. cutaneous leishmaniasis is an important public health problem in the area of m'sila, a semi-arid province in algeria's northern sahara, where two species of hedgehog live, atelerix algirus and paraechinus aethiopicus. the aim of this research was to survey leishmania infection in these hedgehogs and evaluate whether they were reservoir hosts of leishmania in an endemic zoonotic focus of leishmaniasis. s ... | 2014 | 24699087 |
| [a social program for the control of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in m'sila, algeria]. | zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis due to leishmania major is a serious public health problem in algeria. on average, 10,000 new cases are reported every year among the 15 million people at risk of infection. with an annual incidence of 561.8 per 100,000 inhabitants, m'sila has seen the worst outbreak of the disease in algeria since the historic outbreak in biskra. the main reservoir of the disease is psammomys obesus, a gerbil that feeds exclusively on chenopodiaceae, a salt-tolerant plant under ... | 2012 | 23473045 |