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Epidemiology of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Qom Province, Iran, during 2003-2009

Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Qum, 2012
Background and Objectives: Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a parasitological disease that is transmitted by sand flies. This disease is endemic in different areas of Iran.
A Saghafipour, A Akbari, Y Rasi, R Mostafavi   +3 more
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Updates on the distribution and diversity of sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Romania

Parasites & Vectors, 2019
Background Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) are haematophagous insects that transmit the protozoan parasite Leishmania infantum (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae), the main causative agent of both zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and ...
Cristina Daniela Cazan, Ioana Raluca Păstrav, Angela Monica Ionică, Gizem Oguz, Ozge Erisoz Kasap, Vit Dvorak, Petr Halada, Mirabela Oana Dumitrache, Petr Volf, Bulent Alten, Andrei Daniel Mihalca   +10 more
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Studies on sand fly fauna and ecological analysis of Phlebotomus orientalis in the highland and lowland foci of kala-azar in northwestern Ethiopia

PLoS ONE, 2017
Background Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) also known as kala-azar is a growing health problem in Ethiopia with an estimated annual VL incidence between 3700 and 7400. The disease is mainly endemic in northwestern parts of the country. The aim of the current
Esayas Aklilu, Araya Gebresilassie, Solomon Yared, M. Kindu, H. Tekie, M. Balkew, A. Warburg, A. Hailu, T. Gebre-Michael   +8 more
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An All‐in‐One Metabarcoding Approach to Mosquito and Arbovirus Xenosurveillance

Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 25, Issue 8, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) has the potential to transform mosquito‐borne disease surveillance but remains under‐utilised. This study introduces a comprehensive multi‐loci metabarcoding‐based MX (molecular xenomonitoring) approach to mosquito and arbovirus surveillance, enabling parallel identification of mosquito vectors, circulating ...
Brian J. Johnson, Melissa C. Graham, Elina Panahi, Carla Julia S. P. Vieira, Nisa Suraj Nath, Paul Mason, Jamie Gleadhill, Darran Thomas, Michael B. Onn, Martin A. Shivas, Damien Shearman, Jonathan M. Darbro, Gregor J. Devine   +12 more
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Epidemiological Survey of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Hamadan Province (2002-2007)

پزشکی بالینی ابن سینا, 2009
Introduction & Objective: Cutaneous leishmaniasis as one of the most important tropical diseases, is endemic in different parts of Iran. World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended and supported the investigation on this zoonotic disease. The purpose
Amirhosein Zahirnia, Alireza Moradi, Noruz Ali Norozi, Seyyed Jalalodin Nader Bathaii, Hosein Erfani, Abbas Moradi   +5 more
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Chandipura virus: The 2024 resurgence and Gujarat outbreak

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
Originally discovered in 1965 in Maharashtra, India, the Chandipura virus has become a serious hazard to public health, especially in rural areas. Acute encephalitis syndrome, which mostly affects children and has a high death rate, has been associated ...
Rabin Debnath, Pooja A Chawla
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Sandflies’s inventory in a leishmaniasis home in Draa El Mizan, Kabylie

Journal de la Faculté de Médecine d'Oran, 2022
Leishmaniasis, vector-borne diseases related to the genus Phlebotomus, is a public health problem in Algeria, mainly in its cutaneous form. The region of Draa El Mizan (Kabylie), is known as home to the visceral form related to Leishmania infantum and ...
Amina Bouchra ALLAL-IKHLEF, Karima SENOUCI, Kamel BENALLAL, Rachid TRIKI-YAMANI, Zoubir HARRAT, Leila HOUTI   +5 more
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Comparative study on the nocturnal activity of phlebotomine sand flies in a highland and lowland foci of visceral leishmaniasis in north-western Ethiopia with special reference to Phlebotomus orientalis

Parasites & Vectors, 2017
BackgroundLeishmania donovani, the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), is most probably vectored by Phlebotomus orientalis in north-western Ethiopia.
Esayas Aklilu, Araya Gebresilassie, Solomon Yared, M. Kindu, H. Tekie, M. Balkew, A. Warburg, A. Hailu, T. Gebre-Michael   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Effect of Climate Change on Emergence and Evolution of Zoonotic Diseases in Asia

Zoonoses and Public Health, Volume 72, Issue 7, Page 587-611, November 2025.
ABSTRACT As the climate of Asia changes under the influence of global warming, the incidence and spatial distribution of known zoonoses will evolve, and new zoonoses are expected to emerge as a result of greater exposure to organisms which currently occur only in wildlife.
Roger S. Morris, Masako Wada
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Vectores de la leishmaniasis tegumentaria en el valle del Rímac

Anales de la Facultad de Medicina, 2003
OBJETIVO: Determinar la composición de especies de Lutzomyia en el valle del Rímac. MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: El área estudiada fue el anexo de Ullupampa (2000 msnm), ubicado a 1 kilómetro de Surco, distrito de San Jerónimo de Surco, provincia de Huarochirí ...
Abelardo Tejada, Abraham Cáceres, Juan Miranda, Olga Palacios, Víctor Zorrilla   +4 more
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