Temporal dynamics and impact of climate factors on the incidence of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in central Tunisia.

• Main Authors: Amine Toumi (Author), Sadok Chlif (Author), Jihene Bettaieb (Author), Nissaf Ben Alaya (Author), Aicha Boukthir (Author), Zaher E Ahmadi (Author), Afif Ben Salah (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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 ca...