Published in Scientific Papers. Series E. Land Reclamation, Earth Observation & Surveying, Environmental Engineering, Vol. VIII
Written by Ozan ARTUN, Hakan KAVUR
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is known as tropical and subtropical neglected vector-borne disease in the Old World. Despite the fact that the Eastern Mediterranean Region and Tigris Basin are an endemic area of CL, unfortunately their bio-climatic and environmental variables are relatively poorly understood. The aim of the present study were determining the distribution of disease intwo endemic foci and comparison of variables in terms of CL epidemiology. For this purpose, extracted numbers of environmental variables from different sources and determined 3044 CL cases’ location information obtained from the ministry of health database to are used for modeling of the CL current probability of occurrence. The ecological niche model (ENM) analysis was used for this purpose. ENM analyses are made by using ArcGIS and MaxEnt softwares to explore the ecological conditions of the disease. Our results emphasized that CL current the area under the curve (AUC) value were found 0.868, 0.918 and 0.924 in Adana, Mersin (East Mediterranean Region) and Diyarbakir (Tigris Basin) respectively. Also, BIO1, BIO4, BIO5, BIO9, BIO10 and DEM were found related to the presence of native human cases of CL in East Mediterranean Region. BI O2, BIO4 and BIO11 were found to correlate with CL probable distribution in Tigris Basin. Consequently, there were relationship between temperature data and disease epidemiology for both areas. Also, comparison results of the study could be a reference to the health ministry's CL and vector control studies.
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