Dramatic increase in laboratory-diagnosed human cutaneous leishmaniasis cases in southern Israel, 2007-2013.

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Published in Infect Dis (Lond) on January 22, 2015

Authors

Shalom Ben-Shimol1, Orli Sagi, Shlomi Codish, Victor Novack, Chiya Barrett, Yariv Fruchtman, Anat Berkowitz, Yonat Shemer-Avni, David Greenberg

Author Affiliations

1: From the Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit.

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