Incidence of Endemic Human Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Leishmaniasis is recognized as an endemic human disease in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and South America. Yet despite case reports of endemic human leishmaniasis in the United States, and well-documented occurrences of disease in various animal vectors and reservoirs, the endemicity of leishmaniasis in North America has not yet been established. Moreover, leishmaniasis is not a federally reportable disease in the United States. Clinical awareness of endemic disease therefore remains low, with North American physicians considering leishmaniasis a tropical disease.

Objective

To assess the endemicity of human leishmaniasis in the United States.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional multicenter observational study reviewed cases of human lei

SUBMITTER: McIlwee BE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6143046 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature