RESUMO
Four human cases of localized cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania naiffi are reported. Two of the cases were infected in French Guiana, one in French Guiana or Martinique, and the other in Ecuador or Peru. The geographical distribution of L. naiffi is clearly larger than that initially reported. Three zymodemes were represented by the four isolates, confirming that there is intraspecific polymorphism in L. naiffi.
Assuntos
Leishmania/isolamento & purificação , Leishmaniose Cutânea/parasitologia , Adulto , Animais , Eletroforese em Gel de Amido/métodos , Feminino , Humanos , Leishmania/classificação , Leishmania/enzimologia , Masculino , América do SulRESUMO
We report a case of lobomycosis presenting like a cutaneous tumoral lesion in a patient living in Guyana. The causative agent is Loboa loboi. The illness is seldom observed in metropolitan France. The epidemiology, the clinical features, the course and the treatment are studied. The diagnosis is histological, with the morphological features of yeast-like cells.