Leishmaniasis in Eurasia and Africa: geographical distribution of vector species and pathogens.

ABSTRACT: Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease with a broad global occurrence and an increasing number of recorded cases; however, it is still one of the world's most neglected diseases. We here provide climatic suitability maps generated by means of an ecological niche modelling approach for 32 Phlebotomus vector species with proven or suspected vector competence for five Leishmania pathogens occurring in Eurasia and Africa. A GIS-based spatial overlay analysis was then used to compare the distributional patterns of vectors and pathogens to help evaluate the vector species-pathogen relationship currently found in the literature. Based on this single factor of vector incrimination, that is, co-occurrence of both vector and pathogen, most of the pathogens occurred with at least one o

SUBMITTER: Cunze S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6549972 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature