Published in Am J Trop Med Hyg on April 01, 2004
Distinct transmission cycles of Leishmania tropica in 2 adjacent foci, Northern Israel. Emerg Infect Dis (2006) 1.61
Leishmania tropica in rock hyraxes (Procavia capensis) in a focus of human cutaneous leishmaniasis. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2010) 1.25
Detection and molecular typing of Leishmania tropica from Phlebotomus sergenti and lesions of cutaneous leishmaniasis in an emerging focus of Morocco. Parasit Vectors (2013) 1.17
A newly emerged cutaneous leishmaniasis focus in northern Israel and two new reservoir hosts of Leishmania major. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2013) 0.95
Breeding sites of Phlebotomus sergenti, the sand fly vector of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Judean Desert. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2012) 0.94
Genetic, serological and biochemical characterization of Leishmania tropica from foci in northern Palestine and discovery of zymodeme MON-307. Parasit Vectors (2012) 0.88
Multilocus microsatellite typing reveals a genetic relationship but, also, genetic differences between Indian strains of Leishmania tropica causing cutaneous leishmaniasis and those causing visceral leishmaniasis. Parasit Vectors (2014) 0.87
Impacts of Climate Change on Vector Borne Diseases in the Mediterranean Basin - Implications for Preparedness and Adaptation Policy. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2015) 0.86
Molecular fingerprinting of Leishmania infantum strains following an outbreak of visceral leishmaniasis in central Israel. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 0.80
Distribution and Dispersal of Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae) in a Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Focus, the Northern Negev, Israel. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2016) 0.78
Genetic polymorphisms and drug susceptibility in four isolates of Leishmania tropica obtained from Canadian soldiers returning from Afghanistan. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2012) 0.77
Development of assays using hexokinase and phosphoglucomutase gene sequences that distinguish strains of Leishmania tropica from different zymodemes and microsatellite clusters and their application to Palestinian foci of cutaneous leishmaniasis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2013) 0.76
The relationship between leishmaniasis and AIDS: the second 10 years. Clin Microbiol Rev (2008) 5.32
PCR diagnosis and characterization of Leishmania in local and imported clinical samples. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis (2003) 5.32
Whole exome sequencing and homozygosity mapping identify mutation in the cell polarity protein GPSM2 as the cause of nonsyndromic hearing loss DFNB82. Am J Hum Genet (2010) 4.95
Phase 4 trial of miltefosine for the treatment of Indian visceral leishmaniasis. J Infect Dis (2007) 2.74
Targeted genomic capture and massively parallel sequencing to identify genes for hereditary hearing loss in Middle Eastern families. Genome Biol (2011) 2.62
Promoting Arab and Israeli cooperation: peacebuilding through health initiatives. Lancet (2005) 2.48
Evolutionary and geographical history of the Leishmania donovani complex with a revision of current taxonomy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 2.41
Genotype of 88 Toxoplasma gondii isolates associated with toxoplasmosis in immunocompromised patients and correlation with clinical findings. J Infect Dis (2009) 2.33
Comparison of PCR assays for diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 2.26
Spread of vector-borne diseases and neglect of Leishmaniasis, Europe. Emerg Infect Dis (2008) 2.24
From flies' eyes to our ears: mutations in a human class III myosin cause progressive nonsyndromic hearing loss DFNB30. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2002) 2.17
Microsatellite analysis reveals genetic structure of Leishmania tropica. Int J Parasitol (2005) 1.98
Identification and differentiation of Leishmania species in clinical samples by PCR amplification of the miniexon sequence and subsequent restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 1.96
Leishmania donovani leishmaniasis in Cyprus. Lancet Infect Dis (2008) 1.87
First report of genetic hybrids between two very divergent Leishmania species: Leishmania infantum and Leishmania major. Int J Parasitol (2006) 1.75
Geographical distribution and epidemiological features of Old World cutaneous leishmaniasis foci, based on the isoenzyme analysis of 1048 strains. Trop Med Int Health (2009) 1.71
Towards multilocus sequence typing of the Leishmania donovani complex: resolving genotypes and haplotypes for five polymorphic metabolic enzymes (ASAT, GPI, NH1, NH2, PGD). Int J Parasitol (2006) 1.67
Five novel loci for inherited hearing loss mapped by SNP-based homozygosity profiles in Palestinian families. Eur J Hum Genet (2009) 1.67
Otoancorin, an inner ear protein restricted to the interface between the apical surface of sensory epithelia and their overlying acellular gels, is defective in autosomal recessive deafness DFNB22. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2002) 1.65
Distinct transmission cycles of Leishmania tropica in 2 adjacent foci, Northern Israel. Emerg Infect Dis (2006) 1.61
Modular multiantigen T cell epitope-enriched DNA vaccine against human leishmaniasis. Sci Transl Med (2014) 1.57
New clinico-epidemiologic profile of cutaneous leishmaniasis, Morocco. Emerg Infect Dis (2007) 1.57
Outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis in northern Israel. J Infect Dis (2003) 1.57
Detection and identification of old world Leishmania by high resolution melt analysis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2010) 1.57
Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) of the Palestinian West Bank: potential vectors of leishmaniasis. J Med Entomol (2003) 1.50
Analysis of ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer sequences of the Leishmania donovani complex. Microbes Infect (2005) 1.49
Antigen genes for molecular epidemiology of leishmaniasis: polymorphism of cysteine proteinase B and surface metalloprotease glycoprotein 63 in the Leishmania donovani complex. J Infect Dis (2004) 1.49
Visceral leishmaniasis in eastern Sudan: parasite identification in humans and dogs; host-parasite relationships. Microbes Infect (2003) 1.44
Leishmaniasis in Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Trends Parasitol (2004) 1.39
Distinguishing Leishmania tropica and Leishmania major in the Middle East using the polymerase chain reaction with kinetoplast DNA-specific primers. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (2002) 1.37
2-(3-aryl-3-oxopropen-1-yl)-9-tert-butyl-paullones: a new antileishmanial chemotype. J Med Chem (2008) 1.36
Practical approach for typing strains of Leishmania infantum by microsatellite analysis. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 1.33
Molecular epidemiology of Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis in French Guiana. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.33
Genomic duplication and overexpression of TJP2/ZO-2 leads to altered expression of apoptosis genes in progressive nonsyndromic hearing loss DFNA51. Am J Hum Genet (2010) 1.31
Use of PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis to identify the main new world Leishmania species and analyze their taxonomic properties and polymorphism by application of the assay to clinical samples. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.29
Polymerase chain reaction using noninvasively obtained samples, for the detection of Leishmania infantum DNA in dogs. J Infect Dis (2004) 1.28
The potential effects of global warming on changes in canine leishmaniasis in a focus outside the classical area of the disease in southern France. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis (2009) 1.28
Environmental risk mapping of canine leishmaniasis in France. Parasit Vectors (2010) 1.25
Leishmania tropica in rock hyraxes (Procavia capensis) in a focus of human cutaneous leishmaniasis. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2010) 1.25
Differentiation and gene flow among European populations of Leishmania infantum MON-1. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2008) 1.23
Detection and identification of Leishmania species from clinical specimens by using a real-time PCR assay and sequencing of the cytochrome B gene. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.21
Molecular diagnosis of Old World cutaneous leishmaniasis and species identification by use of a reverse line blot hybridization assay. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 1.18
Genetics of congenital deafness in the Palestinian population: multiple connexin 26 alleles with shared origins in the Middle East. Hum Genet (2002) 1.17
Isoenzymatic analysis of 712 strains of Leishmania infantum in the south of France and relationship of enzymatic polymorphism to clinical and epidemiological features. J Clin Microbiol (2004) 1.16
Rapid fluorescent assay for screening drugs on Leishmania amastigotes. J Microbiol Methods (2008) 1.15
Mutations in OTOGL, encoding the inner ear protein otogelin-like, cause moderate sensorineural hearing loss. Am J Hum Genet (2012) 1.15
A truncating mutation in SERPINB6 is associated with autosomal-recessive nonsyndromic sensorineural hearing loss. Am J Hum Genet (2010) 1.11
Sergentomyia schwetzi is not a competent vector for Leishmania donovani and other Leishmania species pathogenic to humans. Parasit Vectors (2013) 1.11
The promyelocytic leukemia protein protects p53 from Mdm2-mediated inhibition and degradation. J Biol Chem (2003) 1.11
Development of a molecular assay specific for the Leishmania donovani complex that discriminates L. donovani/Leishmania infantum zymodemes: a useful tool for typing MON-1. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis (2007) 1.11
Rapid diagnosis of Old World Leishmaniasis by high-resolution melting analysis of the 7SL RNA gene. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 1.10
c-Abl phosphorylates Hdmx and regulates its interaction with p53. J Biol Chem (2008) 1.09
Genetic structure and evolution of the Leishmania genus in Africa and Eurasia: what does MLSA tell us. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2013) 1.09
GPSM2 mutations cause the brain malformations and hearing loss in Chudley-McCullough syndrome. Am J Hum Genet (2012) 1.08
Leishmania tropica: intraspecific polymorphisms in lipophosphoglycan correlate with transmission by different Phlebotomus species. Exp Parasitol (2004) 1.08
Drug regimens for visceral leishmaniasis in Mediterranean countries. Trop Med Int Health (2008) 1.07
Leishmania resistance to miltefosine associated with genetic marker. Emerg Infect Dis (2012) 1.07
Nonsense mutation of the stereociliar membrane protein gene PTPRQ in human hearing loss DFNB84. J Med Genet (2010) 1.07
Comparison of mosquito control programs in seven urban sites in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. Health Policy (2007) 1.06
Leishmaniases and the Cyprus paradox. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2010) 1.06
Genomic analysis of a heterogeneous Mendelian phenotype: multiple novel alleles for inherited hearing loss in the Palestinian population. Hum Genomics (2006) 1.06
The paraphyletic composition of Leishmania donovani zymodeme MON-37 revealed by multilocus microsatellite typing. Microbes Infect (2009) 1.05
Identification of bloodmeals in wild caught blood fed Phlebotomus argentipes (Diptera: Psychodidae) using cytochrome b PCR and reverse line blotting in Bihar, India. J Med Entomol (2012) 1.04
Phlebotomus orientalis sand flies from two geographically distant Ethiopian localities: biology, genetic analyses and susceptibility to Leishmania donovani. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2013) 1.04
Description of a dermatropic Leishmania close to L. killicki (Rioux, Lanotte & Pratlong 1986) in Algeria. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (2009) 1.04
Molecular homogeneity in diverse geographical populations of Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera, Psychodidae) inferred from ND4 mtDNA and ITS2 rDNA Epidemiological consequences. Infect Genet Evol (2007) 1.04
Evaluation of PCR procedures for detecting and quantifying Leishmania donovani DNA in large numbers of dried human blood samples from a visceral leishmaniasis focus in Northern Ethiopia. BMC Infect Dis (2013) 1.02
Vector-borne diseases--constant challenge for practicing veterinarians: recommendations from the CVBD World Forum. Parasit Vectors (2012) 1.02
Multilocus microsatellite typing (MLMT) of strains from Turkey and Cyprus reveals a novel monophyletic L. donovani sensu lato group. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2012) 1.01
Genetic and biological diversity among populations of Leishmania major from Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Microbes Infect (2004) 1.01
Identification of blood meals imbibed by phlebotomine sand flies using cytochrome b PCR and reverse line blotting. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis (2008) 1.00
[Therapy of leishmaniasis in France: consensus on proposed guidelines]. Presse Med (2010) 1.00
Development of a molecular tool for the identification of Leishmania reservoir hosts by blood meal analysis in the insect vectors. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2007) 0.99
Collaborative genomics for human health and cooperation in the Mediterranean region. Nat Genet (2010) 0.99
Epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis in the Jenin District, West Bank: 1989-1998. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2002) 0.98
Leishmaniases in Greece. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2013) 0.97
Geographical distribution and epidemiological features of Old World Leishmania infantum and Leishmania donovani foci, based on the isoenzyme analysis of 2277 strains. Parasitology (2012) 0.96
C-Abl as a modulator of p53. Biochem Biophys Res Commun (2005) 0.96
Treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis with photodynamic therapy. Arch Dermatol (2003) 0.96