Details:

Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Reithinger, Richard ; Mohsen, Mohammad ; Aadil, Khoksar ; Sidiqi, Majeed ; Erasmus, Panna ; ... More +
Reithinger, Richard ; Mohsen, Mohammad ; Aadil, Khoksar ; Sidiqi, Majeed ; Erasmus, Panna ; Coleman, Paul G. Less -
Description:
A prevalence survey in Kabul City showed that 2.7% and 21.9% of persons have active leishmaniasis lesions or scars, respectively. Incidence of disease was estimated to be 2.9% (29 cases/1,000 persons per year; 95% confidence interval 0.018 to 0.031). Disease was associated with age and gender; logistic regression analyses showed significant clustering of cases.
Subject:
[+]
Afghanistan
Animals
Anthroponotic
Control
Cross-Sectional Studies
Dispatch
Family Characteristics
Female
Health Surveys
Housing
Humanitarian Aid
Humans
Insect Vectors
Leishmaniasis
Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous
Leishmania Tropica
Male
Psychodidae
Dispatch

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 9(6):727-729.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:
[+]
urn:sha256:1114ffbdf733013dc932f16df90ad1ce029fde3ec4ea731ac9ea0e2752891e90
File Type:

Supporting Files

• 	03-0026-F.gif	gif
  	03-0026-F.jpg	jpeg
  	03-0026.nxml	txt
  	license.txt	txt

More +