Table 2.
Epidemiologic distribution of Old World Leishmania spp. causing cutaneous leishmaniasis, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, United Kingdom
| Location | L. donovani | L. tropica | L. major | L. aethiopica | Not speciated | Total per country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mediterranean (European countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea including Cyprus, Greece, Majorca, Malta and Gozo, Portugal, Spain and the Balearic Islands, and Sicily) | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 25 |
| Near East (Jordan, Turkey, Syria, Yemen, and Israel) | 4 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 17 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| Afghanistan | 2 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 19 |
| Africa (Continental Africa including all countries bordering the Sahara) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| India | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Iraq | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 12 |
| Total | 28 | 19 | 19 | 1 | 23 |