[Epidemiologic aspects of visceral leishmaniasis in the Province of Granada]

Authors make a retrospective study in 18 children with kala-azar, considering in every case the following epidemiological aspects: age, sex, situation, time of the year and lethality. They have also studied the vector of this disease in some points in Granada and after an adequate study concluded that the main vector of the kala-azar in the investigated zone is "Phlebotomus perniciosus". They have detected as well a new species in Spain, "Plebotomus longicuspis", with a slight epidemiological interest. Finally both investigations are compared finding two zones in Granada (the town and the coast) where most of the cases of kala-azar, are agglutinated and where main species of the vectors were found.