title: [Leishmania (leishmania) mexicana in the village of San Matias, municipality of Gomez Plata, North West of Antioquia, Colombia].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Leishmaniasis is found in natural foci of infection where both sand fly vectors and mammalian reservoirs of Leishmania are present.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To report for the first time the presence of Leishmania (Leishmania) mexicana Biagi, 1953, in the village of San Matías, municipality of Gomez Plata, Department of Antioquia.
  
  
  METHODS
  The parasite was isolated from a patient with localized cutaneous leishmaniasis and was identified by the immunofluorescence technique using specific monoclonal antibodies against L. mexicana species and isoenzyme electrophoresis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The isoenzymatic profiles of the reference strains L. (L.) mexicana (MNCY/BZ/62/M379) and L. (L.) mexicana (MHOM/BE/82/BEL21) were similar to that of the isolate recovered from the patient, allowing us to classify it as L. (L.) mexicana.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Estudio y Control de Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. dsierra68@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sierra
authors.forename: Marcela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ochoa
authors.forename: José Ignacio
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Calle
authors.forename: Gisela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: García
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Colorado
authors.forename: Iván Darío
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Vélez
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003105:Colombia; D006801:Humans; D007894:Leishmania mexicana; D016773:Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous / Q000469:parasitology*