Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Mowaqqar area, Amman Governorate, Jordan.

@article{Saliba1985CutaneousLI,
  title={Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Mowaqqar area, Amman Governorate, Jordan.},
  author={Elias K. Saliba and Oumeish Youssef Oumeish and J Haddadin and Zuhair Sami Amr and Richard William Ashford},
  journal={Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology},
  year={1985},
  volume={79 2},
  pages={
          139-46
        }
}

• Elias K. Saliba, Oumeish Youssef Oumeish, +2 authors Richard William Ashford
• Published in Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology 1985

At least 193 cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis occurred in eight villages of Mowaqqar area, Jordan, between December 1982 and April 1983. Peak transmission of the disease is thought to have taken place in late summer 1982. Approximately 67% of the cases were below 15 years of age and the lesions seen were of the dry type. The sand jird, Psammomys obesus, and the sandfly, Phlebotomus papatasi, the potential animal reservoir and vector of the disease respectively, were found in the affected area… CONTINUE READING

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