Leishmaniasis in Syria – A call for action of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Study Groups for Infections in Travellers and Migrants (ESGITM) and for Clinical Parasitology (ESGCP)

Aula Abbara; Marta González-Sanz; Ayla AlKharrat; Mohamad Khalife; Yasir Elferruh; Naser Almhawish; Salam Abbara; Sana Marroush; Clare Shortall; Shamsa Hussein Ahmed; Abdulaziz Alhazmi; Miriam J. Alvarez-Martinez; Muhammad Asaduzzaman; Asma Al Balushi; Ana Paula Barboza; Hanne Brekke; Paola Di Carlo; Antonio Cascio; Peter Chiodini; Agnese Colpani; Marta Díaz-Menéndez; Natalie Elkheir; Ferenc Balázs Farkas; Puja Garg; Beate Grüner; André R. Guimarães; Ville Holmberg; Petros Ioannou; Sofia Jordão; Jung ah Kim; Botond Lakatos; Hakan Leblebicioglu; Jara Llenas-García; Irene Losada-Galván; Gabriela Equihua Martinez; Edward J.M. Monk; Elena Nedu; Justin Onyebuchi Nwofe; Rhea O'Regan; Riccardo Paggi; Jose Henrique Pinho; Emanuele Pontali; Megha Priyadarshi; Barbara Rath; Balram Rathish; Leonardo Francesco Rezzonico; Nesrine Rizk; Caroline Ronnberg; Miguel Morante-Ruiz; Annabella Salvati; Salvatore Scarso; Marco Antonio Sempere-Alcocer; Chiara Sepulcri; Diana Isabela Costescu Strachinaru; Francesca Tamarozzi; Raquel Tavares; Tamara Ursini; Jaco J. Verweij; Christian Morberg Wejse; Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales

doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2025.102849

Leishmaniasis in Syria – A call for action of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Study Groups for Infections in Travellers and Migrants (ESGITM) and for Clinical Parasitology (ESGCP)

Aula Abbara, Marta González-Sanz, Ayla AlKharrat, Mohamad Khalife, Yasir Elferruh, Naser Almhawish, Salam Abbara, Sana Marroush, Clare Shortall, Shamsa Hussein Ahmed, Abdulaziz Alhazmi, Miriam J. Alvarez-Martinez, Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Asma Al Balushi, Ana Paula Barboza, Hanne Brekke, Paola Di Carlo, Antonio Cascio, Peter Chiodini, Agnese ColpaniMarta Díaz-Menéndez, Natalie Elkheir, Ferenc Balázs Farkas, Puja Garg, Beate Grüner, André R. Guimarães, Ville Holmberg, Petros Ioannou, Sofia Jordão, Jung ah Kim, Botond Lakatos, Hakan Leblebicioglu, Jara Llenas-García, Irene Losada-Galván, Gabriela Equihua Martinez, Edward J.M. Monk, Elena Nedu, Justin Onyebuchi Nwofe, Rhea O'Regan, Riccardo Paggi, Jose Henrique Pinho, Emanuele Pontali, Megha Priyadarshi, Barbara Rath, Balram Rathish, Leonardo Francesco Rezzonico, Nesrine Rizk, Caroline Ronnberg, Miguel Morante-Ruiz, Annabella Salvati, Salvatore Scarso, Marco Antonio Sempere-Alcocer, Chiara Sepulcri, Diana Isabela Costescu Strachinaru, Francesca Tamarozzi, Raquel Tavares, Tamara Ursini, Jaco J. Verweij, Christian Morberg Wejse, Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales

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Original language	English
Article number	102849
Journal	Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume	66
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2025.102849
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2025
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Conflict
Cutaneous leishmaniasis
Eastern Mediterranean region
Humanitarian crisis
One health
Syria
Visceral leishmaniasis
War
Water and sanitation

UN SDGs

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Abbara, A., González-Sanz, M., AlKharrat, A., Khalife, M., Elferruh, Y., Almhawish, N., Abbara, S., Marroush, S., Shortall, C., Ahmed, S. H., Alhazmi, A., Alvarez-Martinez, M. J., Asaduzzaman, M., Al Balushi, A., Barboza, A. P., Brekke, H., Di Carlo, P., Cascio, A., Chiodini, P., ... Rodriguez-Morales, A. J. (2025). Leishmaniasis in Syria – A call for action of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Study Groups for Infections in Travellers and Migrants (ESGITM) and for Clinical Parasitology (ESGCP). Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 66, Article 102849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2025.102849

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Leishmaniasis in Syria – A call for action of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Study Groups for Infections in Travellers and Migrants (ESGITM) and for Clinical Parasitology (ESGCP). / Abbara, Aula; González-Sanz, Marta; AlKharrat, Ayla et al.
In: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, Vol. 66, 102849, 01.07.2025.

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Abbara A, González-Sanz M, AlKharrat A, Khalife M, Elferruh Y, Almhawish N et al. Leishmaniasis in Syria – A call for action of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Study Groups for Infections in Travellers and Migrants (ESGITM) and for Clinical Parasitology (ESGCP). Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. 2025 Jul 1;66:102849. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2025.102849

Leishmaniasis in Syria – A call for action of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Study Groups for Infections in Travellers and Migrants (ESGITM) and for Clinical Parasitology (ESGCP)

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