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Demographical and population dynamics impact on public health of cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Al-Madinah Almonawra, Saudi Arabia

BACKGROUND: A cross-sectional study conducted in Al-Madinah Almonawra in KSA held during the period from March 2014–March 2015. AIM OF THE STUDY: This study aimed at analyzing the effect of population dynamics on the current situation of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Al-Madinah Almonawarah area, a holy...

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Autores principales: Abdalla, Nazar M, Abdelgani, Abdelgani M, Osman, Amani A, Mohamed, Mohamed N
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Makerere Medical School 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7040287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32127813
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v19i3.16
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author Abdalla, Nazar M
Abdelgani, Abdelgani M
Osman, Amani A
Mohamed, Mohamed N
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description BACKGROUND: A cross-sectional study conducted in Al-Madinah Almonawra in KSA held during the period from March 2014–March 2015. AIM OF THE STUDY: This study aimed at analyzing the effect of population dynamics on the current situation of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Al-Madinah Almonawarah area, a holy city that attracts millions of muslims annually. METHODOLOGY: Epidemiological and clinical data were collected by especial questionnaire and laboratory specimens were collected using skin scraping and needle aspiration. Staining and direct microscopy were done. LST was conducted. Analysis was done using SPSS program. RESULTS: The study included 164 patients, all of them were men. Saudi nationality comprised around 20% of the study group, the majority were Egyptians, 26.2%, followed by Pakistani, 21.3%. CONCLUSION: The presence of non-Saudi nationality as foreign workers, immigrants and refugees has worsened the current situation of the disease.
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spelling pubmed-70402872020-03-03 Demographical and population dynamics impact on public health of cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Al-Madinah Almonawra, Saudi Arabia Abdalla, Nazar M Abdelgani, Abdelgani M Osman, Amani A Mohamed, Mohamed N Afr Health Sci Articles BACKGROUND: A cross-sectional study conducted in Al-Madinah Almonawra in KSA held during the period from March 2014–March 2015. AIM OF THE STUDY: This study aimed at analyzing the effect of population dynamics on the current situation of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Al-Madinah Almonawarah area, a holy city that attracts millions of muslims annually. METHODOLOGY: Epidemiological and clinical data were collected by especial questionnaire and laboratory specimens were collected using skin scraping and needle aspiration. Staining and direct microscopy were done. LST was conducted. Analysis was done using SPSS program. RESULTS: The study included 164 patients, all of them were men. Saudi nationality comprised around 20% of the study group, the majority were Egyptians, 26.2%, followed by Pakistani, 21.3%. CONCLUSION: The presence of non-Saudi nationality as foreign workers, immigrants and refugees has worsened the current situation of the disease. Makerere Medical School 2019-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7040287/ /pubmed/32127813 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v19i3.16 Text en © 2019 Abdalla et al. Licensee African Health Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Demographical and population dynamics impact on public health of cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Al-Madinah Almonawra, Saudi Arabia
title_full Demographical and population dynamics impact on public health of cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Al-Madinah Almonawra, Saudi Arabia
title_fullStr Demographical and population dynamics impact on public health of cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Al-Madinah Almonawra, Saudi Arabia
title_full_unstemmed Demographical and population dynamics impact on public health of cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Al-Madinah Almonawra, Saudi Arabia
title_short Demographical and population dynamics impact on public health of cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Al-Madinah Almonawra, Saudi Arabia
title_sort demographical and population dynamics impact on public health of cutaneous leishmaniasis in al-madinah almonawra, saudi arabia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7040287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32127813
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v19i3.16
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