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ArticleTropical medicine and infectious disease2023

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Prevalence and Clinical Overview: A Single Center Study from Saudi Arabia, Eastern Region, Al-Ahsa.

Mahdi Al-Dhafiri, Abdulmohsen Alhajri, Zahraa Ali Alwayel, Jasmine Ahmed Alturaiki, Shaima Ali Bu Izran, Fatimah Ahmed Alhammad, Ryhana Mohammed Aljumaiah

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Article in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Mahdi Al-DhafiriDepartment of Dermatology, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia.
Abdulmohsen AlhajriDepartment of Dermatology, King Fahad Hospital, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia.
Zahraa Ali AlwayelGeneral Practitioner, The Ministry of Health, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia.
Jasmine Ahmed AlturaikiMedical intern, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia.
Shaima Ali Bu IzranInternal Medicine Resident, King Fahad Hospital, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia.
Fatimah Ahmed AlhammadFamily Medicine Resident, Family Medicine Academy, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia.
Ryhana Mohammed AljumaiahInternal Medicine Resident, King Fahad Hospital, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia.
King Fahad Hospital Jeddah · SAKing Faisal University · SAMinistry of Health · SA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a vector-borne parasitic disease that is transmitted via the bites of infected female sandflies. CL has been endemic in several countries worldwide for many decades, and numerous cases have been reported in Saudi Arabia, particularly across six regions; one of which is AL-Ahsa. Our research aimed to evaluate the epidemiological situation of CL among the patients in Al-Ahsa, Eastern region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, during the period from 2017 to 2023. The data were collected from the patients' registries and included 245 patients who were diagnosed with CL in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia. Fewer than half of the cases (47.8%) were Saudi patients, with a significant number of them being males (84.5%). Over half of the cases (52.7%) were aged between 21 and 40 years, and about three-quarters (74.7%) of the cases resided in rural areas. Regarding the nature of the lesions, 38.4% of the cases had one lesion, which was mainly distributed on a lower extremity (62.0%) or an upper extremity (52.2%). A high percentage of the lesions (75.2%) were wet lesions and caused by

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