A boy with an unexpected souvenir from Morocco
Van Hees, C.L.M.; van Hellemond, J.J.; den Boer, M.S.
Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde 158: A7606
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 1876-8784 PMID: 25227885 Document Number: 672542
A 12-year-old boy returned from a summer holiday in North Morocco with a slowly progressive erythematous, infiltrated plaque with a central crust on his right cheek. We diagnosed this as cutaneous leishmaniasis. Treatment for Leishmania major infection failed; subsequent PCR species typing revealed Leishmania infantum. This case shows the importance of recognition of parasitic skin diseases in travellers to the nearby subtropics and the value of leishmania species typing.