Disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania braziliensis in Southern Brazil
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Norberto Assis Membrive1,2, Flávio Jun Kazuma2, Thaís Gomes Verzignassi Silveira3
1Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil.
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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