Evaluating the Climatic Condition of Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Incidence in Kerman Province of Iran

Leishmaniases are among the most important emerging and resurging vector-borne diseases, second only to malaria in terms of the number of affected people. Leishmaniases are endemic in 98 countries and three territories worldwide and threaten about 350 million people. It is estimated that 14 million people are infected worldwide with about two million new cases occurring each year. The parasite is then transmitted to human hosts by the bite of a Phlebotomine sand fly that was previously fed by biting an infected reservoir. We examine the monthly dynamics of the incidence of this zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) as a function of surface climatic and environmental indicators in region which covering a large area of the semi-arid of southeastern portion of Iran Kerman province. in order to we give the climatic and enviornmental data and use the correlation analysis to investigate the assosiation between this variable. we use cross correlation in lag 4 to 6 month to detect the lag effect of climate factors in ZCL incidence. We find the negative correlation between the climatic factors and number of cases of ZCL incidence in Kerman simultaneously. but with 4 to 3 month lags we finde the strong and significant positive correlation among this variable.