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4041081

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-10-21
pubmed:abstractText
A patient with a previous history of an infection with Leishmania b. braziliensis contracted zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) in the Al-Hassa oasis, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. Five lesions healed spontaneously over a period of 40 weeks without treatment. A year after acquiring ZCL he became infected again in the same focus. Isolates of parasites at both episodes were identified as L. major, zymodeme LON-4. Compared with the first infection of ZCL, parasites were fewer in the lesions on the second occasion, the lesions were smaller and healing was quicker (10 weeks). This work and a previous report of patients with active lesions and leishmanial scars suggest that second infections of L. major are not uncommon in the oasis where no autochthonous infections of other species of Leishmania have yet been recorded in man and only one species of Phlebotomus (P. papatasi) is known.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0035-9203
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
79
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
363-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Saudi Arabia: lesions healing naturally in man followed by a second infection with the same zymodeme of Leishmania major.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't