Psychosocial impact of scars due to cutaneous leishmaniasis on high school students in Errachidia province, Morocco

• Main Authors: Issam Bennis (Author), Séverine Thys (Author), Hind Filali (Author), Vincent De Brouwere (Author), Hamid Sahibi (Author), Marleen Boelaert (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background In Morocco, cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is usually known to be a slowly healing localized skin disease, but in some cases, it can lead to mutilating scars. The outbreak of CL due to Leishmania major in the Errachidia province in southeastern Morocco between 2008 and 2010 left ma...