Treatment of cutaneous lesion of 20 years' duration caused by leishmanization

• Main Authors: Ali Khamesipour (Author), Azam Abbasi (Author), Alireza Firooz (Author), Akram Mir Amin Mohammadi (Author), Seyed Ebrahim Eskandari (Author), Mahmoud R Jaafari (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The inoculation of live Leishmania (L.) major to produce a single lesion is called leishmanization (LZ). LZ lesion upon cure prevents further natural infection which might be multiple lesions on unwanted sites such as face. Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) usually leads to a self healing lesion; though...