Clinical findings and management of imported cutaneous leishmaniasis: Report of 14 cases from Austria

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 90-94

  Poeppl, W ^a   Oeser, C ^a   Grabmeier Pfistershammer, K ^b   Walochnik, J ^c   Burgmann, H ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Histology; Leishmania; PCR; Travel; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; AZATHIOPRINE; FLUCONAZOLE; MILTEFOSINE; PAROMOMYCIN; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROHN DISEASE; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LOCAL THERAPY; MALE; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; SYSTEMIC THERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; AUSTRIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TRAVEL;

EID: 84876761830     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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