Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Sanliurfa City Center

Abstract

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis has seen endemic in Şanlıurfa citycentre. Since 1991, 11781 Cutaneous Leishmaniasis cases have applied to Health Centres and treated. It has seen that public intresting level has not enough. Because of cutaneous leishmaniasis has been called as "Beuty Wound". Most of patients have not gone to treatment because of cutaneous leishmaniasis · has been called "Beuty Wound" so that number of patients have increased rapidly. It has seen that the enviromentl conditions the city construction and the social condition have appropriate for reproduction and activation of phlebotomus.