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 Introduction

Tropical Diseases:

I Leishmaniasis
II Paracoccidioidomycosis
III Blastomycocis
IV Chromoblastomycosis
V Lepra
VI Sporotrichosis
VII Histoplasmosis
VIII Rhinosporidiosis
IX Mycetomas
X Rhinoscleroma
XI Chagasdisease
XII Actinomycosis
XIII Mucormycosis
XIV Amoebiasis
XV Protothecosis
XVI Lobomycosis
XVII Phaeohyphomycosis
XVIII Pruritus actinicus
XIX Bite of snake
XX Coccidioidomycosis

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I. Leishmaniasis

Case 9. Tegumentary Leishmaniasis / Prurigo de Hebra

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Fig. 9-A3: Tegumentary Leishmaniasis

At high power the small granular parasites within the vacuolated histiocytes are good to see. They are leishmanias and are Grocott negative. This form of Leishmaniasis with numerous skin nodules and parasites is a opportunistic infection in of an immunodeficiency syndrome.

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Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Los Andes
Merida - Venezuela