Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Otolaryngology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Jun;102(6):1319-1322. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0861.
The six previously reported civilian cases of mucosal leishmaniasis (ML) diagnosed in the United States have all represented imported New World ML. We describe two new patients with ML diagnosed in New York City-a Syrian immigrant with a nasal mass (), the first report of Old World ML in the United States, and an American ecologist who worked in Bolivia and had been treated for cutaneous infection 23 years before developing lesions (. () ) initially of the uvula, soft palate, and posterior pharynx and subsequently the larynx.
此前在美国报告的六例黏膜利什曼病(ML)的平民病例均为输入性新世界 ML。我们描述了在纽约市诊断出的两例新的 ML 患者-一名患有鼻肿块的叙利亚移民(),这是美国首例旧世界 ML 的报告,以及一名曾在玻利维亚工作的美国生态学家,在出现病变之前 23 年前曾接受过皮肤感染的治疗(())最初是悬雍垂、软腭和后咽,随后是喉部。