Thirty years of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Tadla-Azilal focus, Morocco
| Autor: | Oumnia Himmi, Aboubakre Outourakht, Souad Bouhout, Souad Guernaoui, Fatima-zahra Abou-Elaaz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Tadla-Azilal
0301 basic medicine Leishmania tropica Age structure Epidemiology 030231 tropical medicine Article lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Altitude Cutaneous leishmaniasis medicine lcsh:RC109-216 Socioeconomics Space-time distribution biology 030108 mycology & parasitology biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Morocco Infectious Diseases Geography Vector (epidemiology) Parasitology Christian ministry |
| Zdroj: | Parasite Epidemiology and Control Parasite Epidemiology and Control, Vol 4, Iss, Pp-(2019) |
| ISSN: | 2405-6731 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.parepi.2019.e00091 |
| Popis: | Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) due to Leishmania tropica is a major health problem in Tadla-Azilal focus, Morocco, where the first case was registered, here, in one locality named Tanant in 1987. So far, CL remains endemic and largely widespread. The objective of this study was to analyze the current eco-epidemiological situation after thirty years of active transmission. Data used are the official ones, obtained from the Moroccan Ministry of Health.Between 1998 and 2015, 5518 CL cases were registered in three provinces; Azilal, Béni Mellal and Fquih Ben Salah. CL has spread, from the historical focus in Azilal along two axes; one to the Northeastern Mountains and the other to the Northwestern plains.CL infected both genders and all ages, with large number of women (53%) and children (75% had |
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