Background & Aims: Dry type localized cutaneous Leishmaniasis due to Leishmania tropica is one of the most prevalent cutaneous parasitic infections in Kerman province. It seems that cellular immune response and the nature of immune inflammatory cells comprising the inflammatory background play a determinant role in this infection. Methods: Skin biopsies of 53 patients with acute(<2 years durati...

background: cutaneous leishmaniasis is an annoying and disfiguring disease affecting around 1,500,000 individuals globally. there are endemic pockets of this disease in taif region. in some patients, lesion often weeps and leads to scar formation. the study was conducted to see the efficacy of fluconazole and itraconazole in the patients of cutaneous leishmaniasis and the effect of these drugs ...

since occurrence of an epidemic of cutaneous leishmaniasis with high incidence of disease (8.9/1000) in arsanjan county, fars province, southern iran, an attempt was made to investigate an epidemiological study during 2001-2002. symptomatic investigation among 270 schoolchildren over one year of study revealed that 11.9% of population had active lesion with 28.1% scar rate. parallel study showe...

BACKGROUND Cutaneous leishmaniasis is an annoying and disfiguring disease affecting around 1,500,000 individuals globally. There are endemic pockets of this disease in Taif region. In some patients, lesion often weeps and leads to scar formation. The study was conducted to see the efficacy of fluconazole and itraconazole in the patients of cutaneous leishmaniasis and the effect of these drugs o...

© 2013 Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine 2013 This is an open ac ess article distributed under the terms of the Cre tive Commons Attribution Licens , which per its unrestric ed use, di tribution, and r production in any medium, provi d the original work is prop rly c ted. A sev n-y r-ol girl pre en ed to he Departm nt of Tropical Medicine, Biomedical Research Center, Central University of E...

cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) remains a serious public health concern in kerman province, eastern iran. this study was aimed to conduct a comprehensive review and highlights various aspects of cl in the province of kerman.this article mainly focuses on the studies published in the past 26 years on cl in the province. current data for the present status were obtained through the provincial health...

Both urban and rural cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) are endemic in different parts of Iran and have long been recognized in most provinces. However, there is no report of endemicity of CL in rural areas of Kashan, 200 km north of Isfahan and 260 km south of Tehran, Iran. To our knowledge, this is the first report of outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis in this area. To study and iden...

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are the most frequent skin cancers. The etiology of these tumors is multifactorial: Environmental and exogenous factors, genotype and phenotype factors. The development of malignant neoplasms at sites of previous dermal scars is an uncommon but well recognized phenomenon, and since almost all of them were developed on exposed areas it...

The leishmaniases are diseases caused by pathogenic protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania. Infections are initiated when a sand fly vector inoculates Leishmania parasites into the skin of a mammalian host. Leishmania causes a spectrum of inflammatory cutaneous disease manifestations. The type of cutaneous pathology is determined in part by the infecting Leishmania species, but also by a c...