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Volume 29, Number 5—May 2023
Research

Leishmania donovani Transmission Cycle Associated with Human Infection, Phlebotomus alexandri Sand Flies, and Hare Blood Meals, Israel1

Liora StudentskyComments to Author , Laor Orshan, Fouad Akad, Irina Ben Avi, Debora Diaz, Shirly Elbaz, Orly Sagi, Gal Zagron, Lea Valinsky, Maya Davidovich-Cohen, and Gad Baneth
Author affiliations: Ministry of Health Central Laboratories for Public Health, Jerusalem, Israel (L. Studentsky, L. Orshan, I. Ben Avi, D. Diaz, S. Elbaz, M. Davidovich-Cohen); The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel (L. Studentsky, G. Baneth); Ministry of Health National Laboratory for Public Health, Tel Aviv, Israel (F. Akad); Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheba, Israel (O. Sagi); Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection, Jerusalem (G. Zagron); Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel Aviv (L. Valinsky)

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Table 1

Human clinical samples from Soroka Medical Center in study of Leishmania donovani transmission cycle associated with human infection, Phlebotomus alexandri sand flies, and hare blood meals, Israel*

Infecting Leishmania sp.† Residence Clinical description Age, y/sex Diagnosis Patient no.
L. infantum (100% identity with L. infantum, GenBank accession no. KU680954)
 Northern Israel
 Splenomegaly
 47/M
 VL
 1
L. infantum (99.19% identity with L. infantum, GenBank accession no. MN503527)
 Hebron
 Splenomegaly, hepatomegaly
 4/F
 VL
 2
L. infantum (99.87% identity with L. infantum, GenBank accession no. KU680954)
 Negev
 Skin ulcer
 69/F
 CL
 3
L. donovani (99.75% identity with L. donovani, GenBank accession no. LC459330) Arava Skin ulcer 51/M CL 4

*CL, cutaneous leishmaniasis; VL, visceral leishmaniasis. †Leishmania spp. were identified by PCR high resolution melting curves and Sanger sequencing.

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1Data from this study were presented at the Israeli Society for Parasitology, Protozoology and Tropical Diseases Annual Meeting; March 21, 2022; Kfar Hamaccabiah, Ramat Gan, Israel.

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