A newly emerged cutaneous leishmaniasis focus in northern Israel and two new reservoir hosts of Leishmania major.

• Egile Nagusiak: Roy Faiman (Egilea), Ibrahim Abbasi (Egilea), Charles Jaffe (Egilea), Yoav Motro (Egilea), Abdelmagid Nasereddin (Egilea), Lionel F Schnur (Egilea), Moshe Torem (Egilea), Francine Pratlong (Egilea), Jean-Pierre Dedet (Egilea), Alon Warburg (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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In 2006/7, 18 cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) were reported for the first time from Sde Eliyahu (pop. 650), a village in the Beit She'an valley of Israel. Between 2007-2011, a further 88 CL cases were diagnosed bringing the total to 106 (16.3% of the population of Sde Eliyahu). The majori...