Visceral leishmaniasis with cutaneous involvement caused by Leishmania infantum-chagasi

We report the case of a 66 year-old woman who presented nodular skin lesions on her back and upper extremities. Biopsy revealed amastigotes that were identified as Leishmania infantum-chagasi by PCR. Evaluation also showed hepatomegaly and pulmonary nodules. Treatment with amphotericin B led to comp...

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Autores principales: Raja, Mohammed, Gonzales Zamora, Jose Armando
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5725215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29255674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.11.011
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description We report the case of a 66 year-old woman who presented nodular skin lesions on her back and upper extremities. Biopsy revealed amastigotes that were identified as Leishmania infantum-chagasi by PCR. Evaluation also showed hepatomegaly and pulmonary nodules. Treatment with amphotericin B led to complete resolution of skin lesions.
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spelling pubmed-57252152017-12-18 Visceral leishmaniasis with cutaneous involvement caused by Leishmania infantum-chagasi Raja, Mohammed Gonzales Zamora, Jose Armando IDCases Article We report the case of a 66 year-old woman who presented nodular skin lesions on her back and upper extremities. Biopsy revealed amastigotes that were identified as Leishmania infantum-chagasi by PCR. Evaluation also showed hepatomegaly and pulmonary nodules. Treatment with amphotericin B led to complete resolution of skin lesions. Elsevier 2017-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5725215/ /pubmed/29255674 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.11.011 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Visceral leishmaniasis with cutaneous involvement caused by Leishmania infantum-chagasi
title_full Visceral leishmaniasis with cutaneous involvement caused by Leishmania infantum-chagasi
title_fullStr Visceral leishmaniasis with cutaneous involvement caused by Leishmania infantum-chagasi
title_full_unstemmed Visceral leishmaniasis with cutaneous involvement caused by Leishmania infantum-chagasi
title_short Visceral leishmaniasis with cutaneous involvement caused by Leishmania infantum-chagasi
title_sort visceral leishmaniasis with cutaneous involvement caused by leishmania infantum-chagasi
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5725215/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.11.011
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