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mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
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characteristics and treatment
- In leishmaniasis
…a complication referred to as mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, or espundia. Destruction of the lips, throat, palate, and larynx can ensue. Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis may not appear until years after an initial cutaneous lesion has healed.
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infectious agent
- In protozoan: Parasitic protozoans
…sore), and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (espundia), two distinctly different forms occur. Rounded, nonflagellated forms called amastigotes feed and divide inside macrophage cells in different regions of the human body, while in the gut of the insect vector there occurs a flagellated form called a promastigote. Members of the genus Trypanosoma,…
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