RESUMO

A rare case report of American leishmaniasis imported to Italy after a prolonged journey in Brazil is described, and discussed according to the recent epidemiologic, diagnostic, and clinical literature evidence. Since a delayed diagnosis and treatment of American leishmaniasis outside endemic areas is common (due to a low clinical suspicion), careful and timely consideration of tropical infections is warranted in the differential diagnosis of cutaneous lesions found in a European traveller.

Assuntos

Leishmaniose Cutânea/diagnóstico , Adolescente , Antiprotozoários/uso terapêutico , Brasil , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Humanos , Itália , Leishmaniose Cutânea/tratamento farmacológico , Masculino , Meglumina/uso terapêutico , Antimoniato de Meglumina , Compostos Organometálicos/uso terapêutico , Viagem

Assuntos

Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida/complicações , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapêutico , Sarcoma de Kaposi/tratamento farmacológico , Criança , Humanos , Masculino , Sarcoma de Kaposi/complicações