1. Increasing incidence of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis on Crete, Greece.
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Antoniou M, Messaritakis I, Christodoulou V, Ascoksilaki I, Kanavakis N, Sutton AJ, Carson C, and Courtenay O
- Subjects
- Animals, Dog Diseases diagnosis, Dog Diseases parasitology, Dogs, Greece epidemiology, Incidence, Leishmaniasis, Visceral epidemiology, Models, Biological, Zoonoses parasitology, Antibodies, Protozoan blood, Dog Diseases epidemiology, Leishmania infantum immunology, Leishmaniasis, Visceral veterinary, Zoonoses epidemiology
- Abstract
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.
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- 2009
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