| natural lieshmania infection in sand cats captured in riyadh district, saudi arabia. | felis margarita or sand cat is a nocturnal carnivore occurs in sandy areas of desert in many african and arabin countries. ten sand cats were captured alive in riyadh district. indirect haemagglutioation reactions against leishmaniasis were detected in four of them at dilutions 1/64 (1), 1/512 (1) and 1/1024 (2). on the other hand, leishmania amastigotes were detected in the splenic smears of four (40%), two of which had amastigotes in the liver smears as well (20%). unfortunately, culture for t ... | 1999 | 12561884 |