Epidemiological and hematological Investigation of Leishmania major

Abstract

In this study a total of 600 suspected cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis at refugee campus in Kirkuk were investigated. Samples were collected during the period of January – March 2015 ,pateints ages were (1-50) years old. Fifty four cases were found to be positive with infection rate 9% . Cutaneous leishmaniasis were more frequent in females (61.11%) than in males (38.88%) . The highest infection rate of cutaneous disease (37.07%) were found among age group (1-5) years where the lowest infection rate (1.85%) were found at age groups (31-35 and 46-50) years. Also the results showed that the infected cases with single sore(66.66%) were more frequent than with multiple sores (33.32%). Statistical analysis showed that the mean value of hemoglobin was significant decrease in the infected cases when compared to the control groups (P

Keywords

• cutaneous leishmaniasis
• blood cells
• reactive protein