Leishmania tropica: Field study in the endemic focus in Turkey and laboratory transmission from asymptomatic hosts and non-lesion sites

Abstract

Sandflies were studied in Urfa, Turkey - a focus of L.tropica. Light and rodent traps were placed in the endemic quarters.

Phlebotomus sergenti caught was twice as many in number as P.papatasi. These 2 species constitute 99% of sandflies.