el-Bahrawy A A, al-Dakhil M M, Sarwat M A, Ahmed M M, Morsy T A
Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
J Egypt Soc Parasitol. 1994 Apr;24(1):223-9.
Leishmaniases whether cutaneous and/or visceral are one of the public health problems in nearly all countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. The prevalence and the incidence are increasing. Control of the animal reservoir hosts in zoonotic forms is one of the best means of measures against leishmaniasis. This paper aimed to screen rodents for their role as reservoir for leishmaniasis. Natural Leishmania infection was detected in one Meriones crassus out of 3 which had cutaneous lesions. The lesion present on Gerbillus cheesmani was negative for amastigotes. Anti-leishmanial antibodies as detected by indirect haemagglutination tests (I.H.A.T.) showed reaction among the seven species of the trapped rodents. However, by interpretation of the diagnostic value of I.H.A. only three M. crassus (3/512) and one Gerbillus cheesmani (1/256) gave seropositive reactions. The whole results were discussed.
利什曼病，无论是皮肤型和/或内脏型，都是东地中海区域几乎所有国家的公共卫生问题之一。其患病率和发病率都在上升。控制动物储存宿主是预防利什曼病的最佳措施之一。本文旨在筛查啮齿动物作为利什曼病储存宿主的作用。在3只患有皮肤病变的粗毛沙鼠中，有1只检测到自然感染利什曼原虫。在埃及沙鼠身上出现的病变未检测到无鞭毛体。通过间接血凝试验（I.H.A.T.）检测到的抗利什曼原虫抗体在捕获的7种啮齿动物中均有反应。然而，通过解读I.H.A.的诊断价值，只有3只粗毛沙鼠（3/512）和1只埃及沙鼠（1/256）呈血清阳性反应。对整个结果进行了讨论。
