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A Historical Overview of the Classification, Evolution, and Dispersion of Leishmania Parasites and Sandflies in Morocco
Ahmed Tabbabi1*, Sajida Sboui2 and Khadija Bekhti1
1Laboratory of Microbial Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Fez, Morocco
2Faculty of Medicine of Monastir, Monastir University, Monastir, Tunisia
- *Corresponding Author:
- Ahmed Tabbabi
Laboratory of Microbial Biotechnology
Faculty of Science and Technology, Fez, Morocco
E-mail: tabbabiahmed@gmail.com
Received date: August 21, 2017; Accepted date: August 31, 2017; Published date: September 06, 2017
Citation: Tabbabi A, Sboui S, Bekhti K (2017) A Historical Overview of the Classification, Evolution, and Dispersion of Leishmania Parasites and Sandflies in Morocco. J Infect Dis Ther 5:332. doi: 10.4172/2332-0877.1000332
Copyright: © 2017 Tabbabi A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
In Morocco, as in most countries around the Mediterranean, leishmaniasis is an important public health problem. The situation has become worrying since the 1970’s and continues to be more complicated. The objective of this work was to realize a historical overview of the classification, evolution, and dispersion of Leishmania parasites and Sandflies in Morocco. The status of the different leishmaniasis could be illustrated in three epidemiological entities: zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) due to L. major transmitted by P. (Phlebotomus) papatasi, Anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) due to L. tropica transmitted by P. sergenti and cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis (VL) due to L. infantum transmitted by P. ariasi, P. perniciosus, and potentially by P. longicuspis. Actually, VL occurred mainly in Northern Morocco. The ACL is widely distributed in the central and western Morocco. The ZCL occurred mainly in the south and south-east of the Atlas Mountains.
