title: [Natural history of cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis].
abstract: The clinical picture of cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis is still the first step in infection suspicion and, consequently, for its accurate diagnosis and sample obtention for parasitological confirmation. Even though leishmaniasis is the parasitic infection with the greatest increase in the last years in Colombia, it is difficult to find in the literature photographs of its clinical manifestations and evolution. For this reason, and hoping to offer a reference article for health personnel dealing frequently with this pathology, a series of pictures is presented that summarize the clinical picture and its evolution from the incipient lesion after the bite of a Lutzomyia female until the severe nasal and oral cartilaginous destruction.
authors.affiliation: Grupo de Parasitología, Instituto Nacional de Salud, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. cahch322@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Carlos Arturo
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Hernández
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016773:Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007897:Leishmaniasis, Mucocutaneous / Q000175:diagnosis