Atypical Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis Presentation Mimicking Rectal Cancer [PDF]
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2023 Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease affecting mostly the exposed skin, causing severe and disfiguring lesions in Ethiopia. In this report, we present two cases of atypical mucocutaneous leishmaniasis; one HIV positive and one HIV ...
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Treatment strategies for mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
Journal of Global Infectious Diseases, 2010 Mucocutaneous is an infection caused by a single celled parasite transmitted by sand fly bites. There are about 20 species of Leishmania that may cause mucocutaneous leishmaniasis.
Emilio Palumbo
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Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis: case report and literature review of a rare endonasal infection [PDF]
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020 Leishmaniasis is a protozoal infection transmitted by a sandfly vector. In Germany leishmaniasis of the mucous membranes is a rare condition and usually due to extension of local skin disease into the mucosal tissue via direct extension, bloodstream or ...
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Successful treatment by adding thalidomide to meglumine antimoniate in a case of refractory anthroponotic mucocutaneous leishmaniasis [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance, 2019 Mucosal leishmaniasis (ML) is mostly associated with Leishmania braziliensis; however, a few cases of Leishmania tropica induced mucocutaneous leishmaniasis have been reported.
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Cheilitis: An unusual presentation of Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis [PDF]
Clinical Case Reports, 2018 Key Clinical Message The Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis (MCL) involving lip is extremely uncommon. A clinical diagnosis of Leishmaniasis of the lips is often challenging to the treating clinician and may result in delayed diagnosis as this case illustrates.
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Human mucocutaneous leishmaniasis in Três Braços, Bahia - Brazil : an area of Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis transmission. II. Cutaneous disease. Presentation and evolution [PDF]
, 1984 Foram analisados os dados clínicos de 182 pacientes com leishmaniose cutânea, provavelmente causada por Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis. Sessenta e oito por cento apresentavam uma única lesão, usualmente uma úlcera, na terça parte inferior anterior ...
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Safety and efficacy of allylamines in the treatment of cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis: A systematic review. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis affect a million people yearly, leading to skin lesions and potentially disfiguring mucosal disease. Current treatments can have severe side effects. Allylamine drugs, like terbinafine, are safe, including during
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Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis in a Pregnant Immigrant. [PDF]
Open Forum Infect Dis, 2022 Abstract Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a parasitic infection that causes significant maternal morbidity, and even fetal mortality, during pregnancy, yet there are limited therapeutic options. Here, we report a case of leishmaniasis in a pregnant immigrant with exuberant mucocutaneous lesions with favorable response to liposomal amphotericin
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Progress of Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis to Drug Nonresponsive Diffuse Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Ethiopia. A Case Report [PDF]
International Medical Case Reports Journal, 2020 Banchamlak Tegegne,1 Getaneh Alemu2 1Amhara Public Health Institute, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia; 2Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, EthiopiaCorrespondence: Getaneh Alemu PO Box 79 Tel +251922842776Email getanehmlt@gmail ...
Tegegne B, Alemu G
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Anti-leishmania igA immunoenzymatic assay in mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (Preliminary report) [PDF]
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1984 The Authors describe an anti-Leishmania IgA-ELISA assay in mucocutaneous leishmaniasis. Increased titers were found in leishmaniasis patients, mainly in the first and second year of infection and in deep mycoses patients showing either mucosal ...
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