Increasing incidence of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis on Crete, Greece.
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.
Antoniou
Maria
M
University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
Messaritakis
Ippokratis
I
Christodoulou
Vasiliki
V
Ascoksilaki
Ioanna
I
Kanavakis
Nikos
N
Sutton
Andrew J
AJ
Carson
Connor
C
Courtenay
Orin
O
D000818:Animals; D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan / Q000097:blood*; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology; D004285:Dogs; D006115:Greece / Q000453:epidemiology; D015994:Incidence; D018314:Leishmania infantum / Q000276:immunology; D007898:Leishmaniasis, Visceral / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D008954:Models, Biological; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology
D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan