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Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis in a Pregnant Immigrant
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 resp...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9345408/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35928503 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac360 |
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author | Briggs, Neima Wei, Brian M Ahuja, Chaarushi Baker, Catherine Foppiano Palacios, Carlo Lee, Emily O’Grady, Niamh Singanamala, Santhi Singh, Katelyn Bandaranayake, Thilinie D Cohen, Jeffrey M Damsky, William Davis, Matthew W Mejia, Rojelio Nelson, Caroline A Topal, Jeffrey E Azar, Marwan M |
author_facet | Briggs, Neima Wei, Brian M Ahuja, Chaarushi Baker, Catherine Foppiano Palacios, Carlo Lee, Emily O’Grady, Niamh Singanamala, Santhi Singh, Katelyn Bandaranayake, Thilinie D Cohen, Jeffrey M Damsky, William Davis, Matthew W Mejia, Rojelio Nelson, Caroline A Topal, Jeffrey E Azar, Marwan M |
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description | 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 B. |
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spelling | pubmed-93454082022-08-03 Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis in a Pregnant Immigrant Briggs, Neima Wei, Brian M Ahuja, Chaarushi Baker, Catherine Foppiano Palacios, Carlo Lee, Emily O’Grady, Niamh Singanamala, Santhi Singh, Katelyn Bandaranayake, Thilinie D Cohen, Jeffrey M Damsky, William Davis, Matthew W Mejia, Rojelio Nelson, Caroline A Topal, Jeffrey E Azar, Marwan M Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report 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 B. Oxford University Press 2022-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9345408/ /pubmed/35928503 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac360 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Briggs, Neima Wei, Brian M Ahuja, Chaarushi Baker, Catherine Foppiano Palacios, Carlo Lee, Emily O’Grady, Niamh Singanamala, Santhi Singh, Katelyn Bandaranayake, Thilinie D Cohen, Jeffrey M Damsky, William Davis, Matthew W Mejia, Rojelio Nelson, Caroline A Topal, Jeffrey E Azar, Marwan M Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis in a Pregnant Immigrant |
title | Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis in a Pregnant Immigrant |
title_full | Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis in a Pregnant Immigrant |
title_fullStr | Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis in a Pregnant Immigrant |
title_full_unstemmed | Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis in a Pregnant Immigrant |
title_short | Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis in a Pregnant Immigrant |
title_sort | mucocutaneous leishmaniasis in a pregnant immigrant |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9345408/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35928503 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac360 |
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