An outbreak of the desert sub-type of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis in Jiashi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China

Authors :: Chun-hua Gao
Xiao-Nong Zhou
Shan Lv
Hai-Tang Chen
Xue-hua Zhu
Yue-tao Yang
Su-Xiang Tong
Jun-yun Wang
Sheng-Bang Chen
Peter Steinmann
Kathrin Ziegelbauer
Source :: Parasitology International. 59:331-337
Publication Year :: 2010
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2010.
Abstract: Few outbreaks of the desert sub-type of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (VL) have been described worldwide. In 2008, the incidence rate of VL in Jiashi County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the western part of the People's Republic of China, increased more than twenty-folds compared to the average annual incidence rate. The majority of the cases (96.6%) occurred among

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