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Article

Socio-Economic and Environmental Factors Associated with Montenegro Skin Test Positivity in an Endemic Area of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Northern Morocco

by
Salsabil Hamdi
1,
Abdellah Faouzi
1,
Rajaa Ejghal
1,
Abderahmane Laamrani
2,
Hamid Amarouch
3,
Mohammed Hassar
1 and
Meryem Lemrani
1,*
1
Laboratoire des Recherches et d’Étude sur les Leishmanioses, Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Casablanca, Morocco
2
Service de Parasitologie, DELM, Ministère de la Santé, Rabat, Morocco
3
Faculté des Sciences Hassan II, Ain Chock, Casablanca, Morocco
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Microbiol. Res. 2012, 3(1), e7; https://doi.org/10.4081/mr.2012.e7
Submission received: 28 September 2011 / Revised: 18 January 2012 / Accepted: 8 February 2012 / Published: 20 March 2012

Abstract

In Marocco, many aspects of human asymptomatic visceral leishmaniasis (VL) still have to be clarified and little information is available about the factors that predispose individuals to asymptomatic infection. A prospective study was carried out in 889 healthy children under the age of 15 years living in two provinces in the endemic area in northern Morocco (the provinces of Taounate and My Yacoub) from April to May 2010. The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence and the socio-economic and environmental characteristics associated with infection by Leishmania infantum. The Montenegro skin test (MST) was used to detect asymptomatic infection. The prevalence of transmission of infection was 11.4% and approximately 2 times higher in Taounate than in My Yacoub, as measured by MST. Asymptomatic infection was associated with gender, age, presence of familial links, proximity to chickens, and the number of people in the house and locality, but it was not associated to education status, presence of dogs, livestock waste, sewage disposal, water supply system or use of insecticides
Keywords: asymptomatic visceral leishmaniasis; socio-economic factors; environmental factors; Montenegro skin test asymptomatic visceral leishmaniasis; socio-economic factors; environmental factors; Montenegro skin test

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Hamdi, S.; Faouzi, A.; Ejghal, R.; Laamrani, A.; Amarouch, H.; Hassar, M.; Lemrani, M. Socio-Economic and Environmental Factors Associated with Montenegro Skin Test Positivity in an Endemic Area of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Northern Morocco. Microbiol. Res. 2012, 3, e7. https://doi.org/10.4081/mr.2012.e7

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Hamdi S, Faouzi A, Ejghal R, Laamrani A, Amarouch H, Hassar M, Lemrani M. Socio-Economic and Environmental Factors Associated with Montenegro Skin Test Positivity in an Endemic Area of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Northern Morocco. Microbiology Research. 2012; 3(1):e7. https://doi.org/10.4081/mr.2012.e7

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Hamdi, Salsabil, Abdellah Faouzi, Rajaa Ejghal, Abderahmane Laamrani, Hamid Amarouch, Mohammed Hassar, and Meryem Lemrani. 2012. "Socio-Economic and Environmental Factors Associated with Montenegro Skin Test Positivity in an Endemic Area of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Northern Morocco" Microbiology Research 3, no. 1: e7. https://doi.org/10.4081/mr.2012.e7

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Hamdi, S., Faouzi, A., Ejghal, R., Laamrani, A., Amarouch, H., Hassar, M., & Lemrani, M. (2012). Socio-Economic and Environmental Factors Associated with Montenegro Skin Test Positivity in an Endemic Area of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Northern Morocco. Microbiology Research, 3(1), e7. https://doi.org/10.4081/mr.2012.e7

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