Two recent but temporally distinct outbreaks of cutaneous leishmaniasis among foreign workers in the Dead-Sea area of Jordan

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 393-400

  Mosleh, I M ^a   Geith, E ^b   Schonian G ^c   Kanani, K A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b South Shuneh Hospital Jordan   (Jordan)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Ministry of Health   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; BURROWING SPECIES; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYOTHERAPY; EPIDEMIC; FOREIGN WORKER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; JORDAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESERVOIR; SEA; SKIN CULTURE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SMEAR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; JORDAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; YOUNG ADULT;

LEISHMANIA MAJOR; SEIDLITZIA ROSMARINUS;

EID: 67650486279     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485909X451735     Document Type: Article

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