Leishmania major and meriones crassus in North Sinai governorate, Egypt

Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis [ZCL.] now seems to be more than was once thought in North Sinai. In the present study, Meriones crassus [23] and M. sacramenti [10] were collected from limited foci of human CL. Leishmania major [four strains] were isolated from M. crassus as indicated enzymologically by the cellulose acetate electrophoresis of nine different enzymes [MDH, 6 PGD, GD, PK, PGM, NH, GPI, ME and SOD]. The four strains were equivalent to zymodeme LON 1 [three strains] and LON 2 [one strain]