Old World Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and Refugee Crises in the Middle East and North Africa

Rebecca Du; Peter J Hotez; Waleed S Al-Salem; Alvaro Acosta-Serrano

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004545

Old World Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and Refugee Crises in the Middle East and North Africa

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 May 26;10(5):e0004545. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004545. eCollection 2016 May.

Authors

Rebecca Du¹, Peter J Hotez^{1

2

3}, Waleed S Al-Salem⁴, Alvaro Acosta-Serrano^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
² Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America.
³ James A. Baker III Institute, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
⁴ Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom.
⁵ Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Africa / epidemiology
Endemic Diseases
Humans
Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / epidemiology*
Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / ethnology
Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / parasitology
Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / prevention & control
Libya / epidemiology
Neglected Diseases / epidemiology*
Neglected Diseases / ethnology
Neglected Diseases / parasitology
Refugees*
Syria / epidemiology
Warfare*
Yemen / epidemiology

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work. Waleed Al-Salem is funded by PhD studentship from the Saudi Cultural Bureau. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.