[The activization of an Ashkhabad focus of anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis].

6 patients with characteristic clinical symptoms of anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) have been revealed in 1987-1988 in the city of Ashkhabad (the Turkmen SSR). 3 Leishmania strains isolated from these patients (MHOM/SU/87/392, MHOM/SU/87/393, MHOM/SU/87/410) were identified as ACL causative agents--Leishmania tropica--by means of isoenzymatic analysis. The analysis for 12 enzymes (G-6-PDH, PGM, 6-PGDH, ACP, ALP, PGI, GOT, ME, LDH, ALD, HK, FK) was performed by electrophoresis on acetate-cellulose plates. The entomological studies carried out in Ashkhabad in September 1987 and May 1988 demonstrated the presence of a specific ACL vector--Phlebotomus sergenti. The abundance index of this species was 0.64-0.70. The above-mentioned data indicate reactivization of previously sanitized ACL focus in Ashkhabad (Turkmen SSR).