Non-healing old world cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by L. infantum in a patient from Spain

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kroidl, Arne ^a   Kroidl, Inge ^a   Bretzel, Gisela ^a   Löscher, Thomas ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Leishmania infantum; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; DISEASE DURATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROLOGY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPAIN;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SPAIN;

EID: 84899493480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-206     Document Type: Article

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