| Revista: | Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo |
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| Número de sistema: | 000536847 |
| ISSN: | 0036-4665 |
| Autores: | Membrive, Norberto Assis1 Kazuma, Flávio Jun2 Silveira, Thaís Gomes Verzignassi3 Teixeira, Jorge Juarez Vieira3 Reinhold Castro, Kárin Rosi1 Teodoro, Ueslei3 |
| Instituciones: | 1Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Paraná. Brasil 2Secretaria Municipal de Saúde, Laboratório de Entomologia Médica, Arapongas, Paraná. Brasil 3Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Departamento de Análises Clínicas e Biomedicina, Maringá, Paraná. Brasil |
| Año: | 2017 |
| Volumen: | 59 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Resumen en inglés | 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. |
| Keyword: | Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis |
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