Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2003 · 197 citations · 9 references
Life SciencesDermatologyInfectious DiseasesDermatopathologyParasitic Skin DiseaseParasitologyInfectious DermatosesMedical ParasitologyParasitic Disease PathogenesisParasitic DiseasesParasitic PathologySkin InfectionsLeishmania Species ComplexLeishmaniasis Of The SkinLeishmaniasis PathogenesisLeishmaniasis PathologyTropical Mycology
Sri Lankan cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), once considered sporadic, is fairly widespread in some parts of the country. Identification of 5 isolates from 4 CL patients by enzyme analysis during 2002 showed that they were all Leishmania donovani zymodeme MON-37, the parasite which also causes visceral leishmaniasis in India and East Africa.
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C. J. Marinkelle · PubMed · 1980 · 174 citations
Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Disease Control, Infectious Diseases +16
Locally acquired cutaneous leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka.
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