Isolation of Leishmania tropica from a patient with visceral leishmaniasis and disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis, southern Iran

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2008 Sep;79(3):435-7.

Abstract

We report a case visceral leishmaniasis with disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania tropica in southern Iran. Typing of this parasite was performed by a species-specific polymerase chain reaction and isoenzyme electrophoresis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Amphotericin B / therapeutic use
  • Animals
  • Antiprotozoal Agents / therapeutic use
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Interferon-gamma / therapeutic use
  • Iran
  • Leishmania tropica / isolation & purification*
  • Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / drug therapy
  • Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / parasitology*
  • Leishmaniasis, Visceral / drug therapy
  • Leishmaniasis, Visceral / parasitology*
  • Meglumine / therapeutic use
  • Meglumine Antimoniate
  • Organometallic Compounds / therapeutic use
  • Phosphorylcholine / analogs & derivatives
  • Phosphorylcholine / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Antiprotozoal Agents
  • Organometallic Compounds
  • Phosphorylcholine
  • miltefosine
  • Meglumine
  • Meglumine Antimoniate
  • Amphotericin B
  • Interferon-gamma