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Lucrecia Acosta-Soto1, Ernesto Sebastian Encinas2, Enrique-Jorge Deschutter3, Roque-Antonio-Luis Pasetto4, Elisa-Maria-Angela Petri-de-Odriozola4, Fernando-Jorge Bornay-Llinares1, José-Manuel Ramos-Rincón5.
Abstract
Endemic cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in northern Argentina has traditionally been caused by Leishmania braziliensis. This study aims to describe an outbreak of Leishmania infantum-caused human CL in the Department Capital of Corrientes Province, Argentina. We retrospectively analyzed the reported cases of CL in this area from May 2015 to December 2016. Eighty cases of CL were clinically and analytically diagnosed, and there was one case of visceral leishmaniasis in a boy who also had CL. Patients' median age was 33.6 years (range 1-89 years), and 18.5% were younger than 15 years; the male:female ratio was 3.5:1. Cases lived mostly in the municipality of Corrientes (72.8%), whereas 27.2% resided in Riachuelo. Although 67.9% had a single lesion, 32.1% had several. Molecular analyses showed that L. infantum was the causative species in all cases. Our results show that for the first time, there was an outbreak of CL by L. infantum in an urban area of Argentina.Entities:
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Year: 2020 PMID： 31971146 PMCID： PMC7056430 DOI： 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0527
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Trop Med Hyg ISSN： 0002-9637 Impact factor: 2.345