Epidemiology of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Outbreak, Waziristan, Pakistan

Abstract

During 2013–2015, prevalence of cutaneous leishmaniasis in war-affected Waziristan areas was 3.61% by PCR. Youths (1–15 years of age) were more susceptible. Internal transcribed spacer 1 PCR followed by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis identified Leishmania tropica in 215 samples and Leishmania major in 6 samples.

Keywords

• Epidemiology
• cutaneous leishmaniasis
• leishmaniasis
• Leishmania tropica
• outbreak
• Waziristan