Epidemiological study of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in IRAQ –WASSIT

Abstract

This investigation has been carried out at Wassit region and by association with Wassit health directorate during 2006, the recorded cases has been taken from all parts of Wassit province. However the diagnosis depended on clinical symptoms and laboratory test by aspirate a little mount of infected liquid from skin lesion to prepare stained slide by giemza stain . The result of this investigation shows variants in disease epidemically from region to another where reservoir host and female of sandfly genus phlobotomus and in2 particularly the species phlebotomus sergenti distributed which serve as vector. The peak of infected cases appeared in Al-Sewearha city (90 case) and minimum in Badra city (one case) ,and the number of infected in the other cities ranged (51, 18, 12, 6, in Al-Azezya Al-Nuemanaaya, Al-Hay Al-Kut ) respectively. Cutaneous leishmaniasis restricted by host age and maximum range of infection (63 case) in age more than (15 years) and minimum in age less than one years of age (12 case) and other cases ranged between them. Host sex influence in susceptibility to infection , the number of infected cases in male (94 cases) and (84 cases ) in female , that indicates the male more susceptible to infection than female.