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Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the Dorsal Skin of Hamsters: a Useful Model for the Screening of Antileishmanial Drugs
Published on: April 21, 2012
[Cutaneous leishmaniasis. Diagnosis and therapy in northern Afghanistan]
1Fachsanitätszentrum Leipzig , Kornblumenweg 4, 04158, Leipzig, Deutschland, Rolf.Dieterle@t-online.de.
Background:
The German S1 guidelines from 2009 contain a variety of recommendations for the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis.
Patients And Methods:
We report the results of our diagnostic procedures and treatment of 32 international patients in autumn 2010 in northern Afghanistan.
Results:
Giemsa stain confirmed the clinical diagnosis within 24 hours. Eleven simple lesions and one larger ulcer responded well to cryotherapy and intralesional sodium stibogluconate. More complex lesions in 19 patients responded well to oral miltefosine. One patient refused outpatient therapy.
Conclusions:
Cryotherapy and intralesional antimony compounds showed good results in early lesions of cutaneous leishmaniasis in northern Afghanistan. Outpatient treatment of complex lesions with miltefosine was successful in all cases.
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