SAND-FLY PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI (PHLEBOTOMINAE): A GENERAL REVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ZOONOTIC CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS IN EGYPT
SALEH, A., LABIB, N., ABDEL-FATTAH, M., AL-ATTAR, M., MORSY, T. (2015). SAND-FLY PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI (PHLEBOTOMINAE): A GENERAL REVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ZOONOTIC CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS IN EGYPT. EKB Journal Management System, 45(3), 525-544. doi: 10.21608/jesp.2015.96287
AHMAD MEGAHED AHMAD SALEH; NARGIS ALBERT LABIB; MOHAMMAD SAAD ABDEL-FATTAH; MOHAMMAD BAKR FARAG AL-ATTAR; TOSSON A. MORSY. "SAND-FLY PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI (PHLEBOTOMINAE): A GENERAL REVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ZOONOTIC CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS IN EGYPT". EKB Journal Management System, 45, 3, 2015, 525-544. doi: 10.21608/jesp.2015.96287
SALEH, A., LABIB, N., ABDEL-FATTAH, M., AL-ATTAR, M., MORSY, T. (2015). 'SAND-FLY PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI (PHLEBOTOMINAE): A GENERAL REVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ZOONOTIC CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS IN EGYPT', EKB Journal Management System, 45(3), pp. 525-544. doi: 10.21608/jesp.2015.96287
SALEH, A., LABIB, N., ABDEL-FATTAH, M., AL-ATTAR, M., MORSY, T. SAND-FLY PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI (PHLEBOTOMINAE): A GENERAL REVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ZOONOTIC CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS IN EGYPT. EKB Journal Management System, 2015; 45(3): 525-544. doi: 10.21608/jesp.2015.96287

SAND-FLY PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI (PHLEBOTOMINAE): A GENERAL REVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ZOONOTIC CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS IN EGYPT

Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology
Article 8, Volume 45, Issue 3, December 2015, Page 525-544  XML PDF (359.28 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2015.96287
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Authors
AHMAD MEGAHED AHMAD SALEH1; NARGIS ALBERT LABIB2; MOHAMMAD SAAD ABDEL-FATTAH1; MOHAMMAD BAKR FARAG AL-ATTAR1; TOSSON A. MORSY3
1Military Medical Academy, Egypt.
2Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt.
3Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain-Shams University, Cairo 11466, Egypt.
Abstract
Leishmania are digenetic protozoa which inhabit two hosts, the sandfly where they grow as promastigotes in the gut, and the mammalian macrophage where they grow as amastigotes. Sandfly (or sand fly) is a colloquial name for any species or genus of flying, biting, bloodsucking Dipteran encountered in sandy areas. In the United States, sandfly may refer to certain horse flies that are also known as "greenheads" (family Tabanidae), or to members of the family Ceratopogonidae, also known in Florida and elsewhere as a sand gnat, sandflea, no-see-um (no-see-em, noseeum), granny nipper, chitra, punkie, or punky. Outside the United States, sandfly may refer to members of the subfamily Phlebotominae within the Psychodidae. Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae) are sometimes called sand flies or no-see-ums (no-see-em, noseeum). New Zealand sandflies are in the Austrosimulium genus, a type of black fly. Of 500 known phlebotomine species, only some 30 of them have been positively identified as vectors of the disease. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) is a protozoan disease well documented not only in Egypt, but in nearly all the East Mediterranean Countries. It is prevalent in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula with at least three identified foci.
Keywords
Egypt; Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis; Phlebotomus papatasi (Scopoli)
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