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Biomédica
Print version ISSN 0120-4157On-line version ISSN 2590-7379
Abstract
HERNANDEZ, Carlos Arturo. Natural history of cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis. Biomédica [online]. 2006, vol.26, suppl.1, pp.10-12. ISSN 0120-4157.
The clinical picture of cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis is still the first step in infection suspicion and, consequently, for its accurate diagnosis and sample obtention for parasitological confirmation. Even though leishmaniasis is the parasitic infection with the greatest increase in the last years in Colombia, it is difficult to find in the literature photographs of its clinical manifestations and evolution. For this reason, and hoping to offer a reference article for health personnel dealing frequently with this pathology, a series of pictures is presented that summarize the clinical picture and its evolution from the incipient lesion after the bite of a Lutzomyia female until the severe nasal and oral cartilaginous destruction.
Keywords : leishmaniasis, cutaneous; leishmaniasis, mucocutaneous.