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Temporal dynamics and impact of climate factors on the incidence of Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in central Tunisia [1]

Old world Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ZCL) is a vector-borne human disease caused by Leishmania major, a unicellular eukaryotic parasite transmitted by pool blood-feeding sand flies mainly to wild rodents, such as Psammomys obesus. The human beings who share the rodent and sand fly habitats can be subverted as both sand fly blood resource. ZCL is endemic in the Middle East, Central Asia, Subsaharan and North Africa. Like other vector-borne diseases, the incidence of ZCL displayed by humans varies with environmental and climate factors. However, so far no study has addressed the temporal dynamics or the impact of climate factors on the ZCL risk.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2012
Amine Toumi [2], Sadok Chlif [3], Jihene Bettaieb & et al [4]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases [5]
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Climate Change [6], Climate Impacts [7], Diseases [8], Vector Borne Diseases [9], Tunisia [10], Africa [11]
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