Cutaneous Leishmaniasis with Mucosal Involvement
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Tarih
2021
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Yayıncı
Galenos Publishing House
Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
Leishmaniasis is a protozoan parasitic disease transmitted to humans by infected female sand flies. Turkey has received more than three million immigrants from Syria because of the civil war and political instability. This study reported cases of two patients, who were from Syria and lived in Hatay, with cutaneous leishmaniasis and mucosal involvement. Two patients presented to the infectious diseases clinic with a complaint of facial lesions and were subsequently referred to the parasitology department laboratory. Smears were prepared from the lesions, stained with Giemsa and examined under a microscope. Moreover, aspirates taken from the patients’ lesions were inoculated into the modified Novy-MacNeal-Nicolle medium. The diagnosis was made when amastigotes were detected in both smears. Proliferation of promastigotes was observed in one of the clinical specimens inoculated on the medium. By PZR-RFLP, Leishmania tropica were detected in the isolate. Both patients were treated with amphotericin B. One patient was treated again with a pentavalent antimony compound because of the recurrence of the lesion. © 2021 Turkish Society for Parasitology.
Açıklama
Anahtar Kelimeler
Leishmania tropica, Leishmaniasis, treatment
Kaynak
Turkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi
WoS Q Değeri
Scopus Q Değeri
Q3
Cilt
45
Sayı
3
