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Postgrad Med J 2002;78:757-758 doi:10.1136/pmj.78.926.757
  • Case report

New World leishmaniasis from Spain

  1. N Tomson1,
  2. R P Symonds2,
  3. A A Moir1,
  4. C H Kendall3,
  5. M J Wiselka4
  1. 1Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester
  2. 2Department of Oncology
  3. 3Department of Histopathology
  4. 4Department of Infectious Diseases
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr R P Symonds, Department of Oncology, University of Leicester, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE1 5WW, UK;
 paul.symonds{at}uhl-tr.nhs.uk
  • Received 25 February 2002
  • Accepted 1 October 2002

Abstract

A 69 year old man living in Spain contracted mucocutaneous leishmaniasis involving the nose. The infecting organism was Leishmania infantum, which only rarely causes the New World form of the disease. The source of infection was probably a neighbour's dog. The patient began treatment with liposomal amphotericin B but died of pneumonia two months later.

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