Rare variants of cutaneous leishmaniasis presenting as eczematous lesions

Authors

  • Ali Fattahi Bafghi Department of Medical Parasitology & Mycology & Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, ShahidSadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
  • Jamshid Ayatollahi Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, ShahidSadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
Abstract:

  Cutaneous Leishmaniasis may present with clinical presentation such as zosteriform, sporotrichoid and erysipeloid. The eczema variant has rarely been reported. We report a 27- year- old patient with atypical cutaneous leishmaniasis resembling eczema on the hand of a man in Yazd province in the central of Iran.  

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volume 28  issue 1

pages  438- 440

publication date 2014-01

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