TY - JOUR ID - 98122 TI - Unusual Presentations of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Two Iranian Patients JO - Iranian Journal of Dermatology JA - IJD LA - en SN - AU - Zahra, Asadi-Kani AU - Mehdi, Qeisari AU - Shahrzad Azizaddini Allahiar, Taheri AU - Mojdeh, Sarlak AD - Y1 - 2010 PY - 2010 VL - 13 IS - 3 SP - 99 EP - 102 KW - chronic cutaneous leishamaniasis KW - diffuse cutaneous leishamaniasis KW - HIV KW - leishmanization DO - N2 - Leishmaniasis affects 1.5-2 million new cases in the world annually. Two major complications of cutaneous leishamaniasis include diffuse cutaneous leishamaniasis (DCL ) occurring in the setting of deficient cell mediated immunity, typically with HIV infection, and chronic cutaneous leishamaniasis (CCL ) developing in approximately 4% of L. tropica infections in Iran and Afghanistan which also may complicate vaccination with a live strain of leishmania (leishmanization). The Iran – Iraq war took place in a hyper endemic area of Old-World cutaneous leishmaniasis. We report two Iranian soldiers who were both infected in the battle field and presented several years after the war; one was an HIV positive patient with DCL and the other was a previously leishmaniazed patient with CCL. UR - https://www.iranjd.ir/article_98122.html L1 - https://www.iranjd.ir/article_98122_3629e215598ca7f450783eae183609cb.pdf ER -