Increasing Incidence of Zoonotic Visceral Leishmaniasis on Crete, Greece

Antoniou, Maria; Messaritakis, Ippokratis; Christodoulou, Vasiliki; Ascoksilaki, Ioanna; Kanavakis, Nikos; Sutton, Andrew J.; Carson, Connor; Courtenay, Orin

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Increasing Incidence of Zoonotic Visceral Leishmaniasis on Crete, Greece

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Jun 2009

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Emerg Infect Dis. 15(6):932-934.

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Antoniou, Maria ; Messaritakis, Ippokratis ; Christodoulou, Vasiliki ; Ascoksilaki, Ioanna ; Kanavakis, Nikos ; ... More ▼

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To determine whether the incidence of canine leishmaniasis has increased on Crete, Greece, we fitted infection models to serodiagnostic records of 8,848 dog samples for 1990-2006. Models predicted that seroprevalence has increased 2.4% (95% confidence interval 1.61%-3.51%) per year and that incidence has increased 2.2- to 3.8-fold over this 17-year period.

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