Treatment outcome of imported cutaneous leishmaniasis among travellers and migrants infected with Leishmania major and Leishmania tropica: a retrospective study in European centres 2013 to 2019.
Int J Infect Dis 2022;
122:375-381. [PMID:
35728749 DOI:
10.1016/j.ijid.2022.06.025]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Asia, Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa is mainly caused by Leishmania major and Leishmania tropica. We describe and evaluate the treatment outcome of CL among travellers and migrants in Europe.
METHODS
A retrospective study of parasitological confirmed CL cases caused by L. major and L. tropica during 2013-2019 in Europe. Data were collected from medical records and databases within the LeishMan network.
RESULTS
Out of 206 included cases of CL, seventy-five were identified as L. major and 131 as L. tropica. Eighty percent of the patients with L. tropica infection were migrants, whereas 53 % of patients with L. major infection had been visiting friends and relatives. Among patients with L. tropica, 48 %, were younger than 15. Pentavalent antimony cured 73 % (L. major) and 78 % (L. tropica). Intralesional administration had a cure rate, 86 % and systemic, 67%, on L. tropica. Liposomal amphotericin B had a cure rate of 44-63 %.
CONCLUSION
L. major infections were mostly found in individuals visiting friends and relatives, whereas L. tropica were mainly identified in migrants. No patients with L. major relapsed. Pentavalent antimony, liposomal amphotericin B and cryotherapy had cure rates in accordance with previous studies.
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