Clinical and immunopathological aspects of disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis

EM Carvalho, A Barral, JML Costa, A Bittencourt… - Acta tropica, 1994 - Elsevier
The clinico-pathological and immunological findings in eight patients from Bahia, Brazil with
disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis are described. This condition differs from anergic
diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis (DCL) and from classical American cutaneous
leishmaniasis (ACL). The number of lesions in these patients ranged from 75 to 800 and
were characterized by papules and an acneiform type of lesion with a few ulcers rather than
nodules that are the main characteristic of DCL. On the other hand the high incidence of …