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Yossi Bitton1,2, Orna Diav-Citrin2,3
1Division of Clinical Pharmacy, Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
|November 19, 2020
Abstract:
We report the pregnancy outcomes of 6 women with cutaneous leishmaniasis; 5 of these women received topical antileishmenial therapy during gestation with paromomycin plus methylbenzethonium chloride combination ointment and/or sodium stibogluconate intralesional injections. No teratogenic effects were reported. Furthermore, no vertical transmission was observed.

