PRO/AH/EDR> Leishmaniasis, animal – USA, Germany, Switzerland: L. siamensis, equine, RFI

Leishmaniasis — Worldwide/Unknown
Abstract
From our Central European point of view, leishmaniasis is a vector-borne parasitic disease that occurs mainly in tropical and subtropical countries. In recent years there is however an increasing number of reports of indigenous cases in Central Europe, especially in southern Germany. This is probably caused by climate change and global warming and the northward shift of the occurrence of the sandfly vectors.
The aim of the present study was the identification and phylogenetic