NDT Advance Access originally published online on July 26, 2007
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2007 22(12):3674; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm520
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A typical presentation of cutaneous leishmaniasis after renal transplantation
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Sir,
Leishmania parasites are transmitted to humans through the bite of sand flies and may cause visceral, cutaneous or mucocutaneous disease, with clinical features ranging from localized ulcers to systemic lethal disease. The mucocutaneous
1Servico de Nefrologia da
Santa Casa de Goiania,
Goiania, GO, Brazil
2Instituto de Ciencias
Biomedicas da Universidade
Federal de Uberlandia,
Uberlandia, MG, Brazil