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Trend of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Jordan From 2010 to 2016: Retrospective Study

BACKGROUND: Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is endemic in the Middle East, with countries such as Syria reporting high incidence rates. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the trends in the incidence of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Jordan from 2010 to 2016. METHODS: This retrospective study includ...

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Autores principales: Alhawarat, Mohammad, Khader, Yousef, Shadfan, Bassam, Kaplan, Nasser, Iblan, Ibrahim
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7139431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32207696
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/14439
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author Alhawarat, Mohammad
Khader, Yousef
Shadfan, Bassam
Kaplan, Nasser
Iblan, Ibrahim
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Khader, Yousef
Shadfan, Bassam
Kaplan, Nasser
Iblan, Ibrahim
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description BACKGROUND: Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is endemic in the Middle East, with countries such as Syria reporting high incidence rates. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the trends in the incidence of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Jordan from 2010 to 2016. METHODS: This retrospective study included all cases of CL that had been reported to the Leishmaniasis Surveillance System in the Department of Communicable Diseases at the Jordan Ministry of Health during the period from 2010 to 2016. A total of 1243 cases were reported and met the case definition. RESULTS: A total of 1243 cases (60.65% [754/1243] males and 39.34% [489/1243] females) were diagnosed during the study period. Of this sample, 233 patients (19.13%) were aged <5 years old, 451 (37.03%) were aged between 5-14 years old, 190 (15.60%) were aged between 15-24 years old, and 344 (28.24%) were aged ≥25 years old. Of those, 646 (51.97%) were Jordanians and 559 (44.97%) were Syrians. The average annual incidence rate of 1.70 per 100,000 people between 2010 and 2013 increased to 3.00 per 100,000 people in the years 2014 to 2016. There was no difference in incidence rates between Jordanians and Syrian refugees between 2010 and 2012. After 2012, the incidence rate increased significantly among Syrian refugees from 1.20 per 100,000 people in 2012 to 11.80 per 100,000 people in 2016. On the contrary, the incidence rate did not change significantly among Jordanians. CONCLUSIONS: The incidence rate of leishmaniasis in Jordan has increased in the last three years because of the influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan. A massive effort toward reservoir and vector control, along with actively pursuing diagnosis in endemic foci, will be helpful. Proper and studious reporting of cases is also a necessity for the eradication of this disease.
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spelling pubmed-71394312020-04-17 Trend of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Jordan From 2010 to 2016: Retrospective Study Alhawarat, Mohammad Khader, Yousef Shadfan, Bassam Kaplan, Nasser Iblan, Ibrahim JMIR Public Health Surveill Original Paper BACKGROUND: Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is endemic in the Middle East, with countries such as Syria reporting high incidence rates. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the trends in the incidence of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Jordan from 2010 to 2016. METHODS: This retrospective study included all cases of CL that had been reported to the Leishmaniasis Surveillance System in the Department of Communicable Diseases at the Jordan Ministry of Health during the period from 2010 to 2016. A total of 1243 cases were reported and met the case definition. RESULTS: A total of 1243 cases (60.65% [754/1243] males and 39.34% [489/1243] females) were diagnosed during the study period. Of this sample, 233 patients (19.13%) were aged <5 years old, 451 (37.03%) were aged between 5-14 years old, 190 (15.60%) were aged between 15-24 years old, and 344 (28.24%) were aged ≥25 years old. Of those, 646 (51.97%) were Jordanians and 559 (44.97%) were Syrians. The average annual incidence rate of 1.70 per 100,000 people between 2010 and 2013 increased to 3.00 per 100,000 people in the years 2014 to 2016. There was no difference in incidence rates between Jordanians and Syrian refugees between 2010 and 2012. After 2012, the incidence rate increased significantly among Syrian refugees from 1.20 per 100,000 people in 2012 to 11.80 per 100,000 people in 2016. On the contrary, the incidence rate did not change significantly among Jordanians. CONCLUSIONS: The incidence rate of leishmaniasis in Jordan has increased in the last three years because of the influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan. A massive effort toward reservoir and vector control, along with actively pursuing diagnosis in endemic foci, will be helpful. Proper and studious reporting of cases is also a necessity for the eradication of this disease. JMIR Publications 2020-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7139431/ /pubmed/32207696 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/14439 Text en ©Mohammad Alhawarat, Yousef Khader, Bassam Shadfan, Nasser Kaplan, Ibrahim Iblan. Originally published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (http://publichealth.jmir.org), 24.03.2020. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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, first published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://publichealth.jmir.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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Alhawarat, Mohammad
Khader, Yousef
Shadfan, Bassam
Kaplan, Nasser
Iblan, Ibrahim
Trend of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Jordan From 2010 to 2016: Retrospective Study
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title_fullStr Trend of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Jordan From 2010 to 2016: Retrospective Study
title_full_unstemmed Trend of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Jordan From 2010 to 2016: Retrospective Study
title_short Trend of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Jordan From 2010 to 2016: Retrospective Study
title_sort trend of cutaneous leishmaniasis in jordan from 2010 to 2016: retrospective study
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7139431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32207696
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/14439
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