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The first case of isolated facial cutanenous leishmaniasis in a Down syndrome infant: a case report and review of the literature

BACKGROUND: Cutaneous leishmaniasis can be caused by several Leishmania species and is transmitted to human beings and animals by sand flies, Down syndrome is known to cause immunodeficiency that might lead to increase the susceptibility to infection with Leishmania. Up to our knowledge this is the...

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Autores principales: Abass, Kotb, Saad, Hekma, Abd-Elsayed, Alaa A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19126205
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-13

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