Disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania braziliensis in Southern Brazil

Autores/as

  • Norberto Assis Membrive Secretaria Municipal de Saúde; Laboratório de Entomologia Médica
  • Flávio Jun Kazuma Secretaria Municipal de Saúde; Laboratório de Entomologia Médica
  • Thaís Gomes Verzignassi Silveira Universidade Estadual de Maringá; Departamento de Análises Clínicas e Biomedicina
  • Jorge Juarez Vieira Teixeira Universidade Estadual de Maringá; Departamento de Análises Clínicas e Biomedicina
  • Kárin Rosi Reinhold-Castro Universidade Estadual de Maringá
  • Ueslei Teodoro Universidade Estadual de Maringá; Departamento de Análises Clínicas e Biomedicina

Palabras clave:

Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis

Resumen

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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Publicado

2017-01-01

Número

Vol. 59 (2017)

Sección

Case Report

Cómo citar

Membrive, N. A., Kazuma, F. J., Silveira, T. G. V., Teixeira, J. J. V., Reinhold-Castro, K. R., & Teodoro, U. (2017). Disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania braziliensis in Southern Brazil. Revista Do Instituto De Medicina Tropical De São Paulo, 59, e37. https://www.journals.usp.br/rimtsp/article/view/133357