TY - JOUR AU - Reithinger, Richard AU - Mohsen, Mohammad AU - Aadil, Khoksar AU - Sidiqi, Majeed AU - Erasmus, Panna AU - Coleman, Paul G. T1 - Anthroponotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Kabul, Afghanistan T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2003 VL - 9 IS - 6 SP - 727 SN - 1080-6059 AB - A prevalence survey in Kabul City showed that 2.7% and 21.9% of persons have active leishmaniasis lesions or scars, respectively. Incidence of disease was estimated to be 2.9% (29 cases/1,000 persons per year; 95% confidence interval 0.018 to 0.031). Disease was associated with age and gender; logistic regression analyses showed significant clustering of cases. KW - Leishmaniasis KW - Leishmania tropica KW - humanitarian aid KW - anthroponotic KW - control KW - Afghanistan KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid0906.030026 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/6/03-0026_article ER - End of Reference