ArticleVector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.)2012
Re-emergence of visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Greek Island of Crete.
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- Clinical, laboratory, and therapeutic characteristics of cutaneous leishmaniasis: 15-year incidence in Crete and Greece, and implications for clinician awareness.GMS hygiene and infection control · 2026Article
- Case Report: A Case of Visceral Leishmaniasis Misdiagnosed as Brucellosis.Infection and drug resistance · 2025Article
- Leishmaniasis in Greece: Prospects of transitioning to a One Health surveillance system.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Review
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- Alternative hosts of Leishmania infantum: a neglected parasite in Europe.Tropical animal health and production · 2024Review
- Diagnostic challenges in cutaneous leishmaniasis due to atypicalFrontiers in medicine · 2024Article
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- Leishmaniosis in Greece: The Veterinary Perspective.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Phlebotomus (Adlerius) simici NITZULESCU, 1931: first record in Austria and phylogenetic relationship with other Adlerius species.Parasites & vectors · 2021Article
- Sand fly fauna of Crete and the description of Phlebotomus (Adlerius) creticus n. sp. (Diptera: Psychodidae).Parasites & vectors · 2020Article
- The changing distribution of Leishmania infantum Nicolle, 1908 and its Mediterranean sandfly vectors in the last 140 kys.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Vector-borne pathogens affecting shelter dogs in eastern Crete, Greece.Parasitology research · 2019Article
- Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in the Greek Aegean Islands: ecological approaches.Parasites & vectors · 2018Article
- Identification of wild-caught phlebotomine sand flies from Crete and Cyprus using DNA barcoding.Parasites & vectors · 2018Article
- Modeling the climatic suitability of leishmaniasis vector species in Europe.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Canine tick-borne pathogens in Cyprus and a unique canine case of multiple co-infections.Ticks and tick-borne diseases · 2017Article
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Abstract
Leishmaniases are vector-borne diseases transmitted by phlebotomine sand flies. Three species of Leishmania are found in the Mediterranean basin: Leishmania infantum, the most common species responsible for both visceral (VL) and cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL); Leishmania major, found in North Africa and Middle East causing CL; Leishmania tropica with a limited presence in Europe, causing CL. During the last 25 years, Crete has become an endemic zone for L. infantum with a high number of infected dogs and an increasing number of human cases every year; in the last 4 years, the incidence has reached an average of seven VL patients per year in a population of 600,000. At the same time, CL has re-emerged in Crete due to L. tropica, with an average of three CL cases per year in the last 4 years. Isolates were typed as L. infantum MON-1 and MON-98 and L. tropica MON-300, a zymodeme not reported before. Both VL and CL have spread to the whole of the island during the last 25 years, primarily in semi-urban and urban areas with altitudes of 0-50 m. The prevailing Phlebotomus species were Phlebotomus neglectus (proven vector of L. infantum) and Phlebotomus similis (suspected vector of L. tropica).
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