American cutaneous leishmaniasis in children and adolescents from northcentral venezuela

Olinda Delgado; Sylvia Silva; Virginia Coraspe; Maria A. Ribas; Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales; Pedro Navarro; Carlos Franco-Paredes

American cutaneous leishmaniasis in children and adolescents from northcentral venezuela

Olinda Delgado, Sylvia Silva, Virginia Coraspe, Maria A. Ribas, Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Pedro Navarro, Carlos Franco-Paredes

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American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) comprises a broad range of cutaneous manifestations caused by different Leishmania species which may produce severe and chronic sequelae in adults. However, it has been suggested that ACL may show different clinical and epidemiological features in children and adolescents that need to be further elucidated. We evaluated the epidemiological features of ACL in a cohort of pediatric patients from Northcentral Venezuela between years 1997 and 2005. Mean age of patients was 9 years old, with a mean clinical evolution of 3 months. Lesions were located mostly in extremities. Forty patients (93%) were positive by MST, 97.7% by IFAT and 48.8% by smear. MST values tended to be related to patients' age, higher values being recorded in older patients (p=0.153).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	178-183
Number of pages	6
Journal	Tropical Biomedicine
Volume	25
Issue number	3
State	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes

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