Increased detection of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Norway by use of polymerase chain reaction

APMIS

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 591-596

  Blonski, Katharina M ^a   Blödorn Schlicht, Norbert ^b   Falk, Thomas M ^b   Faye, Ragnar S ^a   Clausen, Ole P F ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b Dermatologikum Hamburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Granulomatous dermatitis; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NORWAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862679883     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: 16000463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2012.02875.x     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. World Health Organization (WHO). Leishmaniasis [WWW document], URL [accessed on 8 July 2011].
2. Desjeux P. Leishmaniasis: current situation and new perspectives. Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis 2004;27:305-18.
3. Safaei A, Motazedian MH, Vasei M. Polymerase chain reaction for diagnosis cutaneous leishmaniasis in histologically positive, suspicious and negative skin biopsies. Dermatology 2002;205:18-24.
4. Wortmann G, Sweeney C, Houng HS, Aronson N, Stiteler J, Jackson J, et al. Rapid diagnosis of Leishmaniasis by fluorogenic polymerase chain reaction. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2001;65:583-7.
5. *0501 + children with untreated dermatomyositis: a novel model of pathogenesis. J Immunol 2002;168:4154-63.
6. Foulet F, Botterel F, Buffet P, Morizot G, Rivollet D, Deniau M, et al. Detection and identification of Leishmania species from clinical specimens by using a real-time PCR assay and sequencing of the cytochrome b gene. J Clin Microbiol, 2007;45:2110-5.
7. Hall T.A. BioEdit: a user-friendly biological sequence alignment editor and analysis program for Windows 95/98/NT. Nucl Acids Symp Ser 1999;41:95-8.
8. Jeronimo SMB, De Queiroz Sousa A, Pearson RD. Leishmania species: visceral (Kala-Azar), cutaneous, and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis. In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, editors. Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principals and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 6th edn. Philadelphia, PA: Churchill Livingstone, 2005:3145-56.
9. Magill AJ, Grogl M, Johnson SC, Gasser RA Jr. Visceral infection due to Leishmania tropica in a veteran of Operation Desert Storm who presented 2 years after leaving Saudi Arabia. Clin Infect Dis 1994;19:805-6.
10. Smith PAJ. Long incubation period in leishmaniasis. Br Med J 1955;2:1143.
11. Weiss F, Vogenthaler N, Franco-Paredes C, Parker SR. Leishmania tropica-induced cutaneous and presumptive concomitant viscerotropic leishmaniasis with prolonged incubation. Arch Dermatol 2009;145:1023-6.
12. Ready PD. Leishmaniasis emergence in Europe. Euro Surveill. 2010;15:19505. Review.
13. Antinori S, Cascio A, Parravicini C, Bianchi R, Corbellino M. Leishmaniasis among organ transplant recipients. Lancet Infect Dis 2008;8:191-9.
14. Böer A, Blödorn-Schlicht N, Wiebels D, Steinkraus V, Falk TM. Unusual histopathological features of cutaneous leishmaniasis identified by polymerase chain reaction specific for Leishmania on paraffin-embedded skin biopsies. Br J Dermatol 2006;155:815-9.
15. Aransay AM, Testa JM, Morillas-Marquez F, Lucientes J, Ready PD. Distribution of sandfly species in relation to canine leishmaniasis from the Ebro Valley to Valencia, northeastern Spain. Parasitol Res 2004; 94:416-20. Epub 2004 Oct 14.
16. Pratlong F, Rioux JA, Marty P, Faraut-Gambarelli F, Dereure J, Lanotte G, et al. Isoenzymatic analysis of 712 strains of Leishmania infantum in the south of France and relationship of enzymatic polymorphism to clinical and epidemiological features. J Clin Microbiol 2004;42:4077-82.
17. Naucke TJ, Schmitt C. Is leishmaniasis becoming endemic in Germany? Int J Med Microbiol 2004;293(Suppl 37):179-81.