title: Chronic cutaneous leishmaniasis: Leishmania parasites in blood.
abstract: Two patients with chronic cutaneous leishmaniasis had positive blood cultures. The diagnosis was established by the clinical picture, skin biopsy, and culture for Leishmania major and tropica.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Morphology, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nuwayri-Salti
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mu'Atassem
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salman
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Izzedine
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Kibbi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007891:Leishmania / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016773:Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / Q000097:blood* / Q000469:parasitology; D008875:Middle Aged