Clinical features of cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania tropica in an emerging focus in North Morocco;Leishmaniose cutanee a Leishmania tropica dans un foyer emergent au nord du Maroc: Nouvelles formes cliniques

Annales de Dermatologie et de Venereologie

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 419-422

  Chiheb, S ^a   Guessous Idrissi, N ^a   Hamdani, A ^a   Riyad, M ^a   Bichichi, M ^a   Hamdani, S ^b   Krimech, A ^b  

^a IBN ROCHD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Morocco)

^b Delegation Ministere la Sante Pub   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEGLUMINE ANTIMONATE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTRALESIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOROCCO; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SKIN DISEASE; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FACIAL DERMATOSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032772243     PISSN: 01519638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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