Volume 25, Number 4—April 2019
Synopsis
Mucosal Leishmaniasis in Travelers with Leishmania braziliensis Complex Returning to Israel
Michal Solomon, Nadav Sahar, Felix Pavlotzky, Aviv Barzilai, Charles L. Jaffe, Abedelmajeed Nasereddin, and Eli Schwartz
Table 1
Comparison between patients with New World CL and those with ML, Israel, 1993–2015*
| Characteristic |
CL |
ML |
| No. patients | 128 | 17 |
| Sex ratio, M:F | 105:23 (82% male) | 16:1 (94% male) |
| Mean age, y | 24.2 | 27.6 |
| Infected in Bolivia | 83/100 (83%) | 17/17(100%) |
| No. lesions | 1.8 | 2.3 |
| >3 lesions | 21/128 (16%) | 5/17 (29%) |
| Lesion above waist | 61/81 (75%) | 9/17 (53%) |
| PCR positive | 68/76 (89%) | 15/17 (88%) |
*Differences between categories were not significant. CL, cutaneous leishmaniasis; ML, mucosal leishmaniasis.
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