title: First report on natural infection of Phlebotomus sergenti with Leishmania promastigotes in the cutaneous leishmaniasis focus in southeastern Tunisia.
abstract: During September 2010, 133 female sand flies were caught inside houses of patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis in the focus for this disease in southeastern Tunisia and subsequently dissected. One specimen was positive for Leishmania protozoa. This sand fly species was identified as Phlebotomus sergenti, and the parasite was identified as L. tropica. This is the first report of P. sergenti involvement in transmission of L. tropica in Tunisia.
authors: Laboratoire de Recherche, et Laboratoire de Parasitologie, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia. tabbabiahmed@gmail.com
authors: Ahmed
authors: A
authors: Tabbabi
authors: Nadia
authors: N
authors: Bousslimi
authors: Adel
authors: A
authors: Rhim
authors: Karim
authors: K
authors: Aoun
authors: Aïda
authors: A
authors: Bouratbine
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors; D016773:Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / Q000453:epidemiology*; D010691:Phlebotomus / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D014416:Tunisia / Q000453:epidemiology