Gender and Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Israel.
Leishmania braziliensis
Leishmania major
Leishmania tropica
cutaneous leishmaniasis
gender
mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
Journal
Tropical medicine and infectious disease
ISSN: 2414-6366
Titre abrégé: Trop Med Infect Dis
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101709042
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 Aug 2022
12 Aug 2022
Historique:
received:
06
07
2022
revised:
01
08
2022
accepted:
06
08
2022
entrez:
25
8
2022
pubmed:
26
8
2022
medline:
26
8
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Leishmaniasis is estimated to be more common in males than in females. Our purpose was to evaluate differences in preponderance in relation to sex and gender across cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis in Israel. An observational study was performed, including cases of endemic CL (cutaneous leishmaniasis) in Israel, and imported MCL (mucocutaneous leishmaniasis). CL is a notifiable disease and is supposed to be reported to the Ministry of Health (MOH). The MOH database shows that males as more likely to be infected by leishmania, with an incidence of 5/100,000 in males vs. 3.5/100,000 in females. However, while conducting a demographic house-to-house survey in several locations in Israel where CL is highly endemic, among 608 people who were screened only 49% were males in
Identifiants
pubmed: 36006271
pii: tropicalmed7080179
doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed7080179
pmc: PMC9416259
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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