An endemic disease that is characterized by the development of single or multiple localized lesions on exposed areas of skin that typically ulcerate. The disease has been divided into Old and New World forms. Old World leishmaniasis is separated into three distinct types according to epidemiology and clinical manifestations and is caused by species of the L. tropica and L. aethiopica complexes as well as by species of the L. major genus. New World leishmaniasis, also called American leishmaniasis, occurs in South and Central America and is caused by species of the L. mexicana or L. braziliensis complexes.
    

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Patrick Manson, Tropical Diseases, frontispiece

Patrick Manson, Tropical Diseases, drawings of Tse-Tse Fly.

Some critical remarks on Capt. Patton's Report on oriental sore / by C.M. Wenyon.

Leishmaniasis in Brazil. VIII, Observations on the Phlebotomine fauna of an area highly endemic for cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Serra dos Carajas, Para State / R.D. Ward [and others].

Leishmaniasis in Brazil. X, Some observations on intradermal reactions to different trypanosomatid antigens of patients suffering from cutaneous and mucotaneous leishmaniasis / J.J. Shaw and R. Lainson.

Identificação das ulceras de Baurú ao Botão do Oriente / pelo A. Carini e Ulysses Paranhos.

Early discoveries regarding the parasite of oriental sore : (with an English translation of the memoir by P.F. Borovsky, "On Sart sore", 1898) / by Cecil A. Hoare.

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Some critical remarks on Capt. Patton's Report on oriental sore / by C.M. Wenyon.

Leishmaniasis in Brazil. VIII, Observations on the Phlebotomine fauna of an area highly endemic for cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Serra dos Carajas, Para State / R.D. Ward [and others].

Leishmaniasis in Brazil. X, Some observations on intradermal reactions to different trypanosomatid antigens of patients suffering from cutaneous and mucotaneous leishmaniasis / J.J. Shaw and R. Lainson.

Identificação das ulceras de Baurú ao Botão do Oriente / pelo A. Carini e Ulysses Paranhos.

Early discoveries regarding the parasite of oriental sore : (with an English translation of the memoir by P.F. Borovsky, "On Sart sore", 1898) / by Cecil A. Hoare.