Case report: Simultaneous infection with Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis and L. (V.) lainsoni in a Peruvian patient with cutaneous leishmaniasis

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 774-777

  Veland, Nicolas ^a   Valencia, Braulio Mark ^b   Alba, Milena ^c   Adaui, Vanessa ^c   Llanos Cuentas, Alejandro ^b   Arevalo, Jorge ^c   Boggild, Andrea K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^d TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA; STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM; ANTIMONY GLUCONATE; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARM; ARM DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DERMATITIS; DISEASE DURATION; EPITHELIZATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEG ULCER; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS INFECTION; LEISHMANIA LAINSONI; LEISHMANIA LAINSONI INFECTION; MIXED INFECTION; PAPULE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PERU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SKIN ULCER; TRAVEL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; ANTIMONY SODIUM GLUCONATE; COINFECTION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SKIN ULCER;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877126846     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.12-0594     Document Type: Article

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