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Source: http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/05/20/cid.ciu386.abstract
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in North Dakota
Miltiadis Douvoyiannis1,
Tamim Khromachou4,
Norman Byers3,5,
James Hargreaves2,6, and
Henry W. Murray7...
...Correspondence to Dr. Miltiadis Douvoyiannis, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Altru Health System, Main Clinic, 1000 S. Columbia Road. Grand Forks, ND 58201. Telephone: 701-780-6110, FAX: 701-780-1896 and e-mail: mdouvoyiannis@altru.org.
Alternative correspondence to Dr. Henry W. Murray, Division of Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065. Telephone: 212-746-6330, FAX: 212-746-6332 and e-mail: hwmurray@med.cornell.edu
Abstract
In the United States, autochthonous cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by infection with Leishmania mexicana has been reported from Texas and Oklahoma. Here, we describe a child with two new features: cutaneous infection acquired outside of the south-central United States (in North Dakota) and infection caused by L. donovani species complex...
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in North Dakota
Miltiadis Douvoyiannis1,
Tamim Khromachou4,
Norman Byers3,5,
James Hargreaves2,6, and
Henry W. Murray7...
...Correspondence to Dr. Miltiadis Douvoyiannis, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Altru Health System, Main Clinic, 1000 S. Columbia Road. Grand Forks, ND 58201. Telephone: 701-780-6110, FAX: 701-780-1896 and e-mail: mdouvoyiannis@altru.org.
Alternative correspondence to Dr. Henry W. Murray, Division of Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065. Telephone: 212-746-6330, FAX: 212-746-6332 and e-mail: hwmurray@med.cornell.edu
Abstract
In the United States, autochthonous cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by infection with Leishmania mexicana has been reported from Texas and Oklahoma. Here, we describe a child with two new features: cutaneous infection acquired outside of the south-central United States (in North Dakota) and infection caused by L. donovani species complex...