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Volume 29, Number 5—May 2023
Research

Leishmania donovani Transmission Cycle Associated with Human Infection, Phlebotomus alexandri Sand Flies, and Hare Blood Meals, Israel1

Liora StudentskyComments to Author , Laor Orshan, Fouad Akad, Irina Ben Avi, Debora Diaz, Shirly Elbaz, Orly Sagi, Gal Zagron, Lea Valinsky, Maya Davidovich-Cohen, and Gad Baneth
Author affiliations: Ministry of Health Central Laboratories for Public Health, Jerusalem, Israel (L. Studentsky, L. Orshan, I. Ben Avi, D. Diaz, S. Elbaz, M. Davidovich-Cohen); The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel (L. Studentsky, G. Baneth); Ministry of Health National Laboratory for Public Health, Tel Aviv, Israel (F. Akad); Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheba, Israel (O. Sagi); Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection, Jerusalem (G. Zagron); Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel Aviv (L. Valinsky)

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Table 3

Number of Leishmania spp. detected in sand fly samples by PCR during 2018–2020 in study of Leishmania donovani transmission cycle associated with human infection, Phlebotomus alexandri sand flies, and hare blood meals, Israel*

Year Total no. tested L. donovani L. tropica L. major
2018
Females (no. pools) 2,938 (148) 24 2 0
Single unfed females 108 0 0 0
Single engorged females
 89
 0
 0
 0
2019
Females (no. pools) 262 (15) 4 0 0
Single unfed females 121 3 0 0
Single engorged females
 8
 0
 0
 0
2020
Females (no. pools) 940 (47) 10 0 1
Single unfed females 459 3 0 0
Single engorged females
 109
 3
 0
 1
Total no. 5,019 47 2 2

*All engorged females and <10–15 unfed females from each trap were maintained and analyzed individually. If the number of female sand flies in the trap was >15, they were pooled in batches of 20 specimens each.

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1Data from this study were presented at the Israeli Society for Parasitology, Protozoology and Tropical Diseases Annual Meeting; March 21, 2022; Kfar Hamaccabiah, Ramat Gan, Israel.

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