Cargando…

Outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jahrom, an endemic region in the southwest of Iran

The emergence of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has a considerable effect on the burden of other diseases. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is an endemic parasitic disease in Iran. Here, we report an outbreak of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jah...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Mazaherifar, Samaneh, Solhjoo, Kavous, Abdoli, Amir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2022
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9542410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35998176
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2022.2117099
_version_ 1784804143277277184
author Mazaherifar, Samaneh
Solhjoo, Kavous
Abdoli, Amir
author_facet Mazaherifar, Samaneh
Solhjoo, Kavous
Abdoli, Amir
author_sort Mazaherifar, Samaneh
collection PubMed
description The emergence of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has a considerable effect on the burden of other diseases. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is an endemic parasitic disease in Iran. Here, we report an outbreak of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jahrom county, which is an endemic region in the southwest of Iran. Before the pandemic, the annual occurrence of CL was less than 240 cases per year, while the number of cases increased to 307 and 771 cases in the first and second years after the pandemic, respectively. Molecular detection of some isolates identified Leishmania major. The rodent control program was completely interrupted during the first year of the COVID-19 outbreak in Jahrom (February to December 2020), then the program restarted again as routine from the summer of 2021 till now. Interrupted rodent control program along with inadequate screening programs of CL patients were probably one of the causes of this outbreak in Jahrom.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-9542410
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2022
publisher Taylor & Francis
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-95424102022-10-08 Outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jahrom, an endemic region in the southwest of Iran Mazaherifar, Samaneh Solhjoo, Kavous Abdoli, Amir Emerg Microbes Infect Coronaviruses The emergence of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has a considerable effect on the burden of other diseases. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is an endemic parasitic disease in Iran. Here, we report an outbreak of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jahrom county, which is an endemic region in the southwest of Iran. Before the pandemic, the annual occurrence of CL was less than 240 cases per year, while the number of cases increased to 307 and 771 cases in the first and second years after the pandemic, respectively. Molecular detection of some isolates identified Leishmania major. The rodent control program was completely interrupted during the first year of the COVID-19 outbreak in Jahrom (February to December 2020), then the program restarted again as routine from the summer of 2021 till now. Interrupted rodent control program along with inadequate screening programs of CL patients were probably one of the causes of this outbreak in Jahrom. Taylor & Francis 2022-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9542410/ /pubmed/35998176 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2022.2117099 Text en © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Coronaviruses
Mazaherifar, Samaneh
Solhjoo, Kavous
Abdoli, Amir
Outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jahrom, an endemic region in the southwest of Iran
title Outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jahrom, an endemic region in the southwest of Iran
title_full Outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jahrom, an endemic region in the southwest of Iran
title_fullStr Outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jahrom, an endemic region in the southwest of Iran
title_full_unstemmed Outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jahrom, an endemic region in the southwest of Iran
title_short Outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jahrom, an endemic region in the southwest of Iran
title_sort outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis before and during the covid-19 pandemic in jahrom, an endemic region in the southwest of iran
topic Coronaviruses
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9542410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35998176
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2022.2117099
work_keys_str_mv AT mazaherifarsamaneh outbreakofcutaneousleishmaniasisbeforeandduringthecovid19pandemicinjahromanendemicregioninthesouthwestofiran
AT solhjookavous outbreakofcutaneousleishmaniasisbeforeandduringthecovid19pandemicinjahromanendemicregioninthesouthwestofiran
AT abdoliamir outbreakofcutaneousleishmaniasisbeforeandduringthecovid19pandemicinjahromanendemicregioninthesouthwestofiran