Résumé
This was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as part of a German-Israeli-Palestinian cooperation project on the Emergence of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the Middle East: 'An investigation of Leishmania tropica in the Palestinian Authority and Israel' (SCHO 448/8-1), and is in partial fulfillment of the Ph.D. requirements of the Charite University Medicine, Berlin, Germany, by Kifaya Azmi.