Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis
Service of Medical Epidemiology, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, 13 place Pasteur, 1003 Tunis-Belvedère, Tunisia.
Published: November 2011
Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis, caused by Leishmania major (L. major), is endemic in Tunisia. Several rodents have been identified as reservoir hosts of parasites. This study reports, for the first time, the natural infection with L. major zymodeme MON-25 in a specimen of least weasel: Mustela nivalis Linnaeus, 1776 (M. nivalis) collected in Sidi Bouzid. This finding justifies further research on larger samples of this animal to verify its role as a potential reservoir host for cutaneous leishmaniasis in Tunisia.
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