Limited Cutaneous Leishmaniasis as Ulcerated Verrucous Plaque on Leg, Tucson, Arizona, USA

We report a 34-year-old man who had a nonhealing, verrucous plaque with central ulceration on the lower leg. This case-patient is a rare example of endemic limited cutaneous leishmaniasis in Tucson, Arizona, USA. Clinicians should be aware of this disease because its manifestations can vary for indi...

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Autores principales: Dagenet, Caitlyn B., Davis, Mitchell S., Murphy, Sean, Thiede, Rebecca, Culpepper, Keliegh S., Fazel, Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2023
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10202869/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37209715
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2906.230125
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author Dagenet, Caitlyn B.
Davis, Mitchell S.
Murphy, Sean
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Culpepper, Keliegh S.
Fazel, Mohammad
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description We report a 34-year-old man who had a nonhealing, verrucous plaque with central ulceration on the lower leg. This case-patient is a rare example of endemic limited cutaneous leishmaniasis in Tucson, Arizona, USA. Clinicians should be aware of this disease because its manifestations can vary for individual patients.
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spelling pubmed-102028692023-06-01 Limited Cutaneous Leishmaniasis as Ulcerated Verrucous Plaque on Leg, Tucson, Arizona, USA Dagenet, Caitlyn B. Davis, Mitchell S. Murphy, Sean Thiede, Rebecca Culpepper, Keliegh S. Fazel, Mohammad Emerg Infect Dis Research Letter We report a 34-year-old man who had a nonhealing, verrucous plaque with central ulceration on the lower leg. This case-patient is a rare example of endemic limited cutaneous leishmaniasis in Tucson, Arizona, USA. Clinicians should be aware of this disease because its manifestations can vary for individual patients. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2023-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10202869/ /pubmed/37209715 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2906.230125 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Emerging Infectious Diseases is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Dagenet, Caitlyn B.
Davis, Mitchell S.
Murphy, Sean
Thiede, Rebecca
Culpepper, Keliegh S.
Fazel, Mohammad
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title Limited Cutaneous Leishmaniasis as Ulcerated Verrucous Plaque on Leg, Tucson, Arizona, USA
title_full Limited Cutaneous Leishmaniasis as Ulcerated Verrucous Plaque on Leg, Tucson, Arizona, USA
title_fullStr Limited Cutaneous Leishmaniasis as Ulcerated Verrucous Plaque on Leg, Tucson, Arizona, USA
title_full_unstemmed Limited Cutaneous Leishmaniasis as Ulcerated Verrucous Plaque on Leg, Tucson, Arizona, USA
title_short Limited Cutaneous Leishmaniasis as Ulcerated Verrucous Plaque on Leg, Tucson, Arizona, USA
title_sort limited cutaneous leishmaniasis as ulcerated verrucous plaque on leg, tucson, arizona, usa
topic Research Letter
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10202869/
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