Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo ()

Disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania braziliensis in Southern Brazil

  • Norberto Assis Membrive,
  • Flávio Jun Kazuma,
  • Thaís Gomes Verzignassi Silveira,
  • Jorge Juarez Vieira Teixeira,
  • Kárin Rosi Reinhold-Castro,
  • Ueslei Teodoro

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/s1678-9946201759037
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 59, no. 0

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ABSTRACT The authors report a case of disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis, in a 55 years old patient with 1,119 lesions distributed throughout the body. The patient resides in Sabáudia municipality, North of Paraná State, Southern Brazil, where there was no previous report of this form of leishmaniasis. Treatment with meglumine antimoniate was successful, although the diagnosis was made only five months later.

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