Funding Information: Authors from Portugal were funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (FCT) through contract GHTM-UID/Multi/04413/ 2013. R. Rocha was supported by the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science (via FCT) through a PhD grant (UI/BD/151067/2021). C. Muñoz holds a postdoctoral contract Margarita Salas (University of Murcia) from the Program of Requalification of the Spanish U...
© 2022 The Authors. Zoonoses and Public Health published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.; Leishmania spp. are sand fly-borne protozoan parasites causing leishmaniasis in humans and animals. The aim of the study was to analyse the epidemiology of leishmaniasis in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia from 2005 to 2020 and evaluate the associated risk for disease emergence in European countries. It is based on an analysis of WHO and...
A questionnaire survey of animal and human health authorities in Europe revealed that leishmaniases are not notifiable in all countries with autochthonous cases. Few countries implement surveillance and control targeting both animal and human infections. Leishmaniases are considered emergent diseases in most countries, and lack of resources is a challenge for control.
This article is copyright of The Authors, 2016.; Leishmaniasis is endemic in southern Europe, and in other European countries cases are diagnosed in travellers who have visited affected areas both within the continent and beyond. Prompt and accurate diagnosis poses a challenge in clinical practice in Europe. Different methods exist for identification of the infecting Leishmania species. Sixteen clinical laborat...