Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Al-Badarna: a prospective study among school children.

This paper presents the results of a prospective study cutaneous liashmaniasis in 2 schools in Al-Badarna, during the period from July to December 1992. The pupils were interviewed and examined. Positive cases were referred to the Health Unit for treatment.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya: a study of the Yafran area.

We studied 445 cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Yafran area during the period February 1991 to December 1992. The highest incidence rates were recorded at the end of the transmission seasons in two peaks, one in November 1991 and the second in December 1992. The ratio of infected males to females was 1.

Fertility of the cysts of Echinococcus granulosus in domestic herbivores from Benghazi, Libya, and the reactivity of antigens produced from them.

Unilocular cysts produced by Echinococcus granulosus were recovered from 110 domestic herbivores (60 sheep, 25 cattle, 20 goats and five camels) slaughtered in Benghazi. The proportion of the cysts from the sheep found to be fertile (75%) was higher than that of the cysts from the goats (55%), camels (40%), or cattle (0%). When tested in indirect haemagglutination assays (IHA) with eight sera from human cases of cystic echinococcosis, the fluid from the cattle cysts never gave a positive reaction.

Prospective study among cutaneous leishmaniasis cases in Tripoli Central Hospital, Tripoli, Libya.

One hundred and nine cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis were referred to Dermatology unit, Tripoli Central Hospital from 24 localities in north-west Libya during the period from September to December 1994. Clinically most of the lesions were multiple and distributed on the uncovered parts of the body, and the size ranged from 1 to 5 cm. In diameter.