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

• Main Authors: Roy Faiman (Author), Ibrahim Abbasi (Author), Charles Jaffe (Author), Yoav Motro (Author), Abdelmagid Nasereddin (Author), Lionel F Schnur (Author), Moshe Torem (Author), Francine Pratlong (Author), Jean-Pierre Dedet (Author), Alon Warburg (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

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...