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Definition of Cutaneous leishmaniasis

1. Noun. Leishmaniasis of the skin; characterized by ulcerative skin lesions.

Medical Definition of Cutaneous leishmaniasis

1. Infection with promastigotes (leptomonads) of Leishmania tropica and of leishmaniasis major inoculated into the skin by the bite of an infected sandfly, Phlebotomus (commonly P. Papatasi); it is endemic in parts of Asia Minor, northern Africa, and India, and is known by innumerable names, each indicating its locality (e.g., Aleppo, Baghdad, Delhi, or Jericho boil; Aden ulcer; Biskra button); the ulcer begins as a papule that enlarges to a nodule and then breaks down into an ulcer. Two distinctive clinical and epidemiological diseases are recognised, the more common and widespread zoonotic rural disease with a moist acute form, caused by L. Major, with reservoir rodent hosts; and an urban, anthroponotic, dry, chronic form of leishmaniasis caused by leishmaniasis tropica, without a reservoir host, and now largely controlled. See: zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis, anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis. Synonym: juccuya, Old World leishmaniasis, tropical sore. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Cutaneous leishmaniasis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"(c) cutaneous leishmaniasis or Oriental Sore (Leishmaniasis cutanea, Bouton d'Orient, Delhi Boil, Bouba, Utah) Leishmania tropica. ..."

2. Gis for Health and the Environment by Don De Savigny, Pandu Wijeyaratne (1995)
"... and R. Ben-Ismail' Introduction Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL), caused by Leishmania major, poses an important public health problem in Tunisia, ..."

3. Hygiene of Communicable Diseases: A Handbook for Sanitarians, Medical by Francis Merton Munson, John Harington, Francis Randolph Packard, Fielding Hudson Garrison (1920)
"For the Eastern cutaneous leishmaniasis: Oriental sore, Bagdad boil, Aleppo boil, ... For the American cutaneous leishmaniasis : bubas Braziliana, ..."

4. Persian Gulf Experience and Health: Current Bibliographies in Medicine (Jan by John H. Ferguson (1996)
"Bacterial infections in suspected cutaneous leishmaniasis lesions. ... Epidemiology of cutaneous leishmaniasis at a focus monitored by the multinational ..."

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