Mycobacterium chelonae is a rapidly growing mycobacterium found in water and soil that can cause local cutaneous infections in immunocompetent hosts but more frequently affects immunocompromised patients. Typically, patients will present with painful subcutaneous nodules of the joints or soft tissues from traumatic inoculation. However, exhibiting a sporotrichoid-like pattern of these nodules i...

More than 90% of patients infected with cutaneous leishmaniasis live in Afghanistan, the Middle East, Algeria, Brazil, and Peru. Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran is caused by Leishmania tropica and Leishmania major. Most skin lesions evolve from papular to nodular, to ulcerative form with a central depression surrounded by a raised indurate border. Some lesions persist as nodules or plaques. Mul...

M López-Escobar, M Drake-Monfort, R Salesa-Gutiérrez de Rozas, and S Hermana-Ramírez Servicio de Dermatología, Servicio de Microbiología, and Servicio de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Cantabria, Spain white card. We selected the macro function in the digital camera, switched off the flash, and turned on the polarized light of the dermatoscope. We ...

more than 90% of patients infected with cutaneous leishmaniasis live in afghanistan, the middle east, algeria, brazil, and peru. cutaneous leishmaniasis in iran is caused by leishmania tropica and leishmania major . most skin lesions evolve from papular to nodular, to ulcerative form with a central depression surrounded by a raised indurate border. some lesions persist as nodules or plaques. mu...

We describe the case of an elderly woman who acquired a Mycobacterium marinum infection following skin exposure to the bacteria through a small wound on her right ring finger, obtained while preparing fish. The resultant sporotrichoid nodules of the right hand and the distal forearm, refractory to the initial therapy with doxycycline and rifampicin, were successfully treated with oral regimen o...

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.