The new situation of cutaneous leishmaniasis after Syrian civil war in Gaziantep city, Southeastern region of Turkey
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2017
Yazarlar: AHMET ÖZKEKLİKÇİ, MEHMET KARAKUŞ, Yusuf ÖZBEL, Seray TÖZ
ACTA TROPICA, SCI Expanded İndekslerine Giren Dergi, Uluslararası, 2017, cilt 166, ss 35-38
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.10.019
Özet
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is an important public health problem with around 2.000 autochthonous reported cases each year in Turkey. Due to the civil war in Syria, Turkey received around three million refugees and they are mainly located at either camps or homes in south/southeastern part of Turkey. In the present study, we aimed to collect samples from CL suspected patients admitting to State Hospital in Gaziantep City and perform parasitological and DNA-based techniques for diagnosis as well as species identification of the parasite for better understanding the prevalence of each species among Turkish and Syrian patients in the region.