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Increasing incidence of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis on Crete, Greece

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Antoniou, Maria, Messaritakis, Ippokratis, Christodoulou, Vasiliki , Ascoksilaki, Ioanna, Kanavakis, Nikos, Sutton, A. J., Carson, Connor and Courtenay, Orin. (2009) Increasing incidence of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis on Crete, Greece. Emerging Infectious Diseases (Online), Vol.15 (No.6). pp. 932-934. ISSN 1080-6059

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1506.071666

Abstract

To determine whether the incidence of canine leishmaniasis has increased on Crete, Greece, we fitted infection models to serodiagnostic records of 8,848 dog samples for 1990–2006. Models predicted that seroprevalence has increased 2.4% (95% confidence interval 1.61%–3.51%) per year and that incidence has increased 2.2- to 3.8-fold over this 17-year period.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	R Medicine > RB Pathology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) > Biological Sciences ( -2010)
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Kala-azar -- Greece -- Crete, Zoonoses -- Greece -- Crete, Dogs as carriers of disease -- Greece -- Crete, Kala-azar -- Serodiagnosis
Journal or Publication Title:	Emerging Infectious Diseases (Online)
Publisher:	US Department of Health and Human Services
ISSN:	1080-6059
Date:	June 2009
Volume:	Vol.15
Number:	No.6
Page Range:	pp. 932-934
Identification Number:	10.3201/eid1506.071666
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
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URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/2172