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Title: | American cutaneous leishmaniasis outbreak, Tartagal city, province of Salta, Argentina, 1993 | Other Titles: | Surto de leishmaniose cutânea americana na cidade de Tartagal, Província de Salta, Argentina, 1993 | Authors: | Salomón, Oscar Daniel Zaidenberg, Mario Burgos, Ricardo Heredia, Viviana I. Caropresi, S. Liliana |
Keywords: | Leishmaniasis Cutánea;Psychodidae;Argentina;Salta;Tartagal | Issue Date: | 2001 | Project: | datasets | Journal: | Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo | Abstract: | An American cutaneous leishmaniasis outbreak, with cases clustering during 1993 in Tartagal city, Salta, was reported. The outbreak involved 102 individuals, 43.1% of them with multiple ulcers. Age (mean: 33 years old) and sex distribution of cases (74.5% males), as well as working activity (70 forest-related), support the hypothesis of classical forest transmission leishmaniasis,despite the fact that the place of permanent residence was in periurban Tartagal. Moreover, during July, sandflies were only collected from one of the ‘deforestation areas’. Lutzomyia intermediawas the single species of the 491 phlebotomines captured, reinforcing the vector incrimination of this species. Most infections must have been acquired during the fall (April to June), a pattern consistent with previous sandfly population dynamics data. Based on the epidemiological and entomological results, it was advised not to do any vector-targeted periurban control measures during July. Further studies should be done to assess if the high rate of multiple lesions was due to parasite factors or to infective vector density factors. |
Description: | Fil: Salomón, Oscar Daniel. ANLIS Dr.C.G.Malbrán. Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico e Investigación en Endemo-Epidemias; Argentina. Fil: Zaidenberg, Mario. Programa Nacional de Control de Vectores; Argentina. Fil: Burgos, Ricardo. Programa Nacional de Control de Vectores; Argentina. Fil: Heredia, Viviana I. Ministerio de Salud Pública. Hospital de Tartagal, Salta; Argentina. Fil: Caropresi, S. Liliana. Ministerio de Salud Pública. Hospital de Tartagal, Salta; Argentina. |
URI: | http://sgc.anlis.gob.ar/handle/123456789/324 http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rimtsp/v43n2/a10v43n2.pdf |
ISSN: | 0036-4665 | Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Open Access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License |
Appears in Collections: | snrd Publicaciones CeNDIE |
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