Atypical cutaneous leishmaniasis in a semiarid region of north-west Costa Rica
An outbreak of an unusual cutaneous disease was observed during 1986-1987 in about 200 persons, mainly children, in a few neighbourhoods of the town of Liberia, Guanacaste Province, north-west Costa Rica. Most of the cases were from Nazareth, a neighbourhood, developed in 1978, with about 1200...
| Autores Principales: | Zeledón, Rodrigo, Hidalgo, Harry, Viquez, Abel, Urbina, Andrea |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2023
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http://hdl.handle.net/11056/25642 |
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An outbreak of an unusual cutaneous disease was
observed during 1986-1987 in about 200 persons,
mainly children, in a few neighbourhoods of the town
of Liberia, Guanacaste Province, north-west Costa
Rica. Most of the cases were from Nazareth, a
neighbourhood, developed in 1978, with about 1200
persons, at least 5% of whom are Nicaraguan immigrants. Scattered cases have been recognized since
1976 and at that time the disease was identified as
nodular infantile tuberculoid leprosy. |
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