SAND FLIES OF THE CRIMEAN PENINSULA
Journal: Паразитология / Parasitology
Year: 2025

The Crimean Peninsula is characterized by favorable climatic and landscape conditions for sand flies breeding, which are vectors of natural focal infections, such as Pappatachi fever and visceral leishmaniasis. These insects play a key role in the formation of natural and anthropogenic foci of vector–borne diseases in Europe and the Mediterranean. From 2014 to 2024, six cases of visceral leishmaniasis associated with Leishmania infantum in Crimea were recorded. However, the diagnosis of &amp;quo